Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.

It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.

In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.

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