Charlie Stross on Nostr: npub1z67f5…ny22r Arguably obsolete: The Diamond Age was published in 1995 so in the ...

npub1z67f5xs7qymdgq77s4djqdg8xjtn7vner7hw0vgutsh7xe5g8adsany22r (npub1z67…y22r) Arguably obsolete: The Diamond Age was published in 1995 so in the publication pipeline no later than mid-1994 (hence written months to years earlier), the first patent for particle deposition 3D printing dates to 1992. Stephenson was riffing on Eric Drexler's diamond/vacuum phase boundary molecular nanotechnology as envisioned circa 1990, which is not where actually-existing nanotechnology seems to be going.