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

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    7 months ago

    nanotechnology was supposed to be the most super amazing thing ever.

    Like blockchain, 3d-printing, cloud and machine learning?

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        7 months ago

        It would be possible to argue about all of them, as each has genuine use cases. Just not to the extend they were praised during the hype.

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          7 months ago

          I’d suppose people who work with nano machines don’t necessarily call them that either.

          But it’s the buzz word that has been used to push it’s corresponding bubble

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      7 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.