Most are probably too young to remember but nanotechnology was supposed to be the most super amazing thing ever.

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    210 months ago

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

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      210 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%

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        210 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.