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What ever happened to nanotechnology? Seems like it disappeared. (kbin.social)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Most are probably too young to remember but nanotechnology was supposed to be the most super amazing thing ever.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

To be fair, 3d printing is very cool around the house (and we've 3d printed houses!), cloud is a mild success, and ML is an amazing technological advance with near infinite potential uses that we'll likely see put into action in the coming decades-- but that one's still early to tell.

If you consider some parts of material science or chemistry to be nanotechnology, it's been pretty useful too.