Where is my diamond age? Where is molecular manufacturing? Where

>>55252592
>the next century
You already posted the answer, you're just salty you were born too early.

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>>55252681
I believe we could have much more progress in molecular manufacturing now if the funding weren't derailed into chemistry in 2000s.

I also note that the meaning of "technology" changed over time and come to mean "Computers and software". Sadly there is little progress outside these two areas, and even computing hardware progress experiences a slowdown. The moore's law is officially dead now.

>vacuum dirigibles
Well, that's a stupid idea.

>>55252748
If you can manufacture diamondoid structures cheaply (remember that air has significant fraction of CO2, and C can be extracted from it), vacuum dirigibles aren't such a stupid idea.

There is even some research on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship

>>55252778
Nope, still a stupid idea. Why have a giant fuckoff balloon getting in the way when you can just use a nice, compact engine?

>>55252801
Because airships are safer, cheaper (energy-wise), don't pollute the environment and neo-victorians aren't in a hurry anyway.

There are some contemporary airship companies that aim to provide logistic services.

>>55252840
You're a rose-tinted moron.

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>tfw politicians betrayed him and chemists exiled him to britain

>>55252877
http://www.supplychainbrain.com/content/industry-verticals/food-beverage/single-article-page/article/a-new-generation-of-airships-for-cargo-transport-1/

>>55252895
>Barry Prentice, professor of supply chain management at the University of Manitoba, believes that airships will play a key role in the movement of cargo in the years ahead.
wow
very convinced
many weight
much wise
wow

Fuck that. Give me functional immortality first, and then we can talk about self-assembling nanomachines.

>>55252972
"Nanomachines" are a meme
Micromachines constructed from nanoscale parts - sure.

Immortality mostly requires molecular nanotechnology, it's a necessary step to achieve it (the other step being reverse engineering human molecular biology and designing micro-machines to fix our cells).

It is not necessary step in case we will have AGI developed earlier.