National Nanotechnology Day 2021

I was once interested in nanotechnology but decided early on that I had neither the time nor the equipment to pursue my interests in the field.

The whole time I was considering the possibilities they grew farther and farther from my grasp because the education, equipment, and other resources were simply not there nor would they ever be. Simply pie in the sky for me personally.

It's sad to note those fleeting thoughts of pursuing a level of technology which was primarily an advanced laboratory concept in the absence of any semblance of practical applicability from a standpoint of personal existence — but there it was in my face up close and peronal.

A nanometer being a minute one billionth of a meter nanotechnology indicates technological aspects conducted at "nanoscale", which is about 1 to 100 nanometers ...

Dimensions and tolerances of less than 100 nanometers are simply not a practical environment for what was increasingly just a casual interest such as that which was mine.

These technological aspects, machines and such involve manipulation of individual atoms and molecules in practical application and I simply see the acquisition of equipment working in those tolerances beyond my practical scope indeed.

The thrust of nanotechnology is improvement and revolutionizing industrial and technological such as information technology, homeland security, medicine, transportation, energy, food safety, and environmental science, among many others.

The subspecialty called nanorobotics applies technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the scale of a nanometer with nanorobots, aka nanobots aka nanoids typically ranging in size from 0.1-10 micrometers and constructed of nanoscale or molecular components.

October 9 brings us National Nanotechnology Day.

National Nanotechnology Day is an annual celebration featuring events and activities on or around October 9 to raise awareness of nanotechnology and it's application, opportunities, and challenges.

While technology has always been my thing, like Clint Eastwood said in 1973 as Harry Calahan in Magnum Force:
 

A man's GOT to know his limitations.

I'm all too aware of my limitations when it comes to effective pursuit of nanotechnology in practical applications. It was totally impractical from both capital equipment and training perspectives.

It's primarily a realm reserved for corporations and institutions with access to donors promoting high finance, capital equipment, and well equipped laboratories.