Well, that’s a bit like saying figuring out how to smelt iron constituted no progress to the Industrial Revolution. These things have to go a step at a time, and my point in referring to Drexler’s blog was that he seems to think e.g. protein design and DNA origami do constitute real progress.
As for things you could plot on a graph, consider the exponentially increasing amount of computing power put into molecular modeling simulations, not just by nanotechnology advocates, but people who actually do e.g. protein design for living today.
Well, that’s a bit like saying figuring out how to smelt iron constituted no progress to the Industrial Revolution. These things have to go a step at a time, and my point in referring to Drexler’s blog was that he seems to think e.g. protein design and DNA origami do constitute real progress.
As for things you could plot on a graph, consider the exponentially increasing amount of computing power put into molecular modeling simulations, not just by nanotechnology advocates, but people who actually do e.g. protein design for living today.