At a recent family gathering, my father's generation (boomers) joked about how the social debt was my problem.
My problem is a hundred and ten trillion dollars of social debt, or three hundred fifty thousand per person(http://www.usdebtclock.org/)..write your officials, ask why this nation isn't researching nanotech.
http://www.nanotech-now.com/columns/?article=424
While your link touches on some of the issues holding it back, the strongest reason seems to be how it threatens the existing chemistry research establishment, who are happy to accept zillions of dollars for "nanotech" research that's ordinary chemistry, all the while bad mouthing the prospects for "real" nanotech (Drexler style): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1729945
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