I’m generally in agreement with most of these points. One exception is that while I’d like much more nuclear power, I’d still prefer it in large reactors, or at least not so distributed as to be in every home and device. It is a technology dangerous enough to warrant some level of oversight.
On nanotech: true nanoscale manufacturing will always involve phases where you’re assembling nanoscale materials, or assembling using nanoscale components, and frankly the last few decades of materials science have taught us how hard it can be to really engineer and predict the behavior of materials in that scale range, let alone make use of it in macro-scale structures like metamaterials and nanocomposites. We’ve gotten way better at that, now, even if most big companies don’t yet really believe it beyond some very low-hanging fruit (chemicals and materials companies have long memories, and excessive early hype can poison the well for quite a while).
I’m generally in agreement with most of these points. One exception is that while I’d like much more nuclear power, I’d still prefer it in large reactors, or at least not so distributed as to be in every home and device. It is a technology dangerous enough to warrant some level of oversight.
On nanotech: true nanoscale manufacturing will always involve phases where you’re assembling nanoscale materials, or assembling using nanoscale components, and frankly the last few decades of materials science have taught us how hard it can be to really engineer and predict the behavior of materials in that scale range, let alone make use of it in macro-scale structures like metamaterials and nanocomposites. We’ve gotten way better at that, now, even if most big companies don’t yet really believe it beyond some very low-hanging fruit (chemicals and materials companies have long memories, and excessive early hype can poison the well for quite a while).