OA nanotech vs popsci nanotech

[JohnnyYesterday]

The Diamond Age has the best treatment of it that I've seen. Neal Stephenson isn't STEM-illiterate and actually read Nanosystems before he wrote it. He does use the rod-logic nanomechanical computers, which were really only meant to be proof of concept, not anywhere near ideal, but this works stylistically because of other conceits in the novel.

It's a damn-good read, hilarious and heart-breaking.