Re: Art, where's the buzz on nanotech saving America today?

Straydog wrote:

rrc wrote:
Art, back during the IT collapse of '01 and '02, nanotechnology was
heralded as the future savior of the nation. Well... where's all the
buzz nowadays?

Well, as far as I'm concerned we really do have very very small cell
phones now, thumbnail sized hard drives, iPods and nanopods, RFID chips
that are small and cheap, and I've seen these military spy planes that
fly a TV camera over enemy teritory and they are the size of model
airplanes (one foot wingspans). But robots that go through your blood
vessels and chop away the cholesterol plaques....not in my lifetime. Borg
implants? not in my lifetime. Other things: check the CIA. But it would be
helpful to make a list of subminiature things that are already here and
notice the stuff in Popular Science that won't come for years, if ever.

The truth of the matter is that stain resistant pants and rugs are the
main micro-to-nanotech products that's been commercialized and it
hasn't unleashed a tsunami of jobs for the next generation of S&Es as
promised by the spinsters during the IT implosion.

The other iPod like gadgets are simply the next generation of a similar
line of products but with cuter ads.

I think that nano's a dud and the RE bubble et al has numbed people's
mind as to the future of our economy as being one asset bubble to
another. I believe we really are seeing the end of days.

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