I believe There have been major breakthroughs / exponential advances in about 4 or 5 areas - and the technology / applications coming from those converging fields are going to be critical for ushering in whatever you chose to call the emerging new world system
Nanotechnology is one of the fields that went fm sci-fi theoretical to active applications with additional forms en route
Here are some scholarly publications & legitimate sources related to that field for those who are interested:
NIH / PubMed Link - Self Assembling Programmable DNA Nanodevices for Biological and Biomedical Applications
March 2022: "More recently a third sub-branch has emerged-biologically oriented DNA nanotechnology, which seeks to explore the functionalities of combinatorial DNA devices in various biological systems."
NIH / PubMed - The significance of bioengineered nanoplatforms against SARS-CoV-2: From detection to genome editing
June 2021: "Nanotechnology-based research attempts via developing state-of-the-art techniques such as nanomechatronics ones and advanced materials
including the sensors for detecting the pathogen loads at very low concentrations or site-specific delivery of therapeutics, and
real-time protections against the pandemic outbreaks by nanorobots can provide outstanding biomedical breakthroughs."
NIH / PubMed - Nanotechnology in vaccine development:
May 2009: "Combined with novel pharmacokinetics and the possibility of targeted therapy,
nanotechnology-based vaccines may prove superior to existing vaccines and have the potential to open therapeutic avenues for treating infectious disease and malignancy."
Springer - Artificial Intelligence in Nanotechnology: Recent Trends, Challenges and Future Perspectives
June 2021: "Nanoscience and nanotechnology can be used in conjunction with Artificial Intelligence, ... . According to the available literature on different platforms, it can be concluded that the concern for artificial intelligence in nanotechnology has been highly increased in the past decade"
Harvard Magazine - Liquid Computing
December 2001: "Imagine a computer
, suspended in a flask of liquid, which assembles itself when the liquid is poured onto a desktop....[Lieber] is now working on a "proof of concept" for the National Cancer Institute that will demonstrate
the use of nanowire sensors for early detection of prostate cancer. In principle, he says, you could design a centimeter-square chip to detect a billion things simultaneously, even variations in an individual's DNA"
Azonano - Nanotechnology in Vaccines
August 2012: Article highlights methods of vaccine based delivery of nanotechnology into humans while also citing concerns and risks - decent place to start with understanding how the mRNA injections were an entirely new system & technique vs the use of traditional live attenuated virus -
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The toxicity of nanoparticles is hard to assess, .......difficult to measure, and
requires very long trials to determine"
Finally - a non medical application for nanotechnology discussed here - "
Smart Dust" as surveillance, monitoring application
Nanowerk - What is smart dust and how is it used?
Date unknown -
Smart dust refers to wireless networks of sub-millimeter-scale autonomous computing and sensing platforms not larger than a grain of sand. Smart dust senses and records data about its environment such as light, temperature, sound, presence of toxins or vibrations, and transmits that data wirelessly to larger computer systems.
Smart dust is a vision of the networked future where intelligent networks of trillions of miniscule sensors continuously feel, taste, smell, see, and hear what is going on in their surrounding environment, communicate with each other and exchange information. "
Article lists potential applications but also takes a fair and objective look at risks -- risks that include:
privacy concerns, potential to generate pollution and emerging
unknown risks to human health (( potential health risk associated with inhaling or ingesting them. ))
Also new
legal ramifications stemming fm ".The lack of security protecting information created by smart dust networks ....
the network can be accessed without authorization (i.e., hacked) by third parties and its information can be used for illegal purposes."