Hey guys, I'm currently enrolled in 5 basic classes at my local community college and the other day my english teacher had a man come in and discuss the future. He brought up nanotechnology and it really interested me. I was wondering if somebody could help me out with what classes I should start taking (i.e. chemistry, calc 2, physics, etc) if I wanted to start a career in nanoscience. Any help would be much appreciated thank you.

I think you should look at what you like and where the money is. Also check on current jobs in the industry and whether it is going beyond plain research. I earned very good money for 25 years doing a job with a bunch of people who seemed to have had very little education.

A problem with nanotechnology is that it is so small that you wonder what good it can do on a macro scale? Nanobots would be notoriously difficult to programme, to do anything without often breaking down, and so on. Like quantum processing, there will be too many "ghosts in the machine" to be of any use because of their size.


I edited this post as I was probably too negative. It is a new field and possibly you could try talking to some people already working in it and read some books on it's future. Probably all you are going to get on this site is opinions rather than information.