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

submitted 7 months ago by guyrocket@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 2 points 7 months ago

In the maths in Engines of creation, the errors were supposedly so small they were negligible.

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

For sure, and thats generally the goal of any engieering - the biggest question is what error are we measuring? Something like vesting a fully autonomous drone, not even close; tubes in a funny shape that trap all light, were already there 99.9%

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 2 points 7 months ago

IIRC it was around one misplaced atom every century for some throughput. It's like digital vs analog or so I understood it.

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