Nanotechnology (GO) is known from 2004. Optogenetics - 2010.
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Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm).
Modern silicon commercial transistors may be smaller than 45 nanometers in size.
Smartphones today are using nanotechnology, it is safe to say.
No, that's what the term has been dumbed down as now. Back in the 90's, it used to mean building with atomic precision, out of individual atoms. Now it means "whatever the hell is fairly small and we need to hype up for investors and/or hollywood", and the new terms "atomically precise manufacturing" and "machine-phase chemistry" have been invented to cover the original meaning.
The same way "AI" used to mean something else, and now functionally means "whatever the hell we can do right now with really large statistics if you invest infinite money", and the original meaning has been repeatedly renamed and now is something like "recursively self-improving artificial general superintelligence". Rolls off the tongue...
Because if it only meant atomic precision there wouldn't be much technology to speak off. When I learned about it, it was under the definition he gave (2010).
A carbon nanotube, however long, is still nanotechnology since its diameter is in nanometers.
That's my point; there isn't much technology to speak of yet, but unscrupulous people want to apply the sexy term to whatever they're doing anyway.
By their definition, a gas is nanotech :)
Sure but people are good enough not to call it that.