This took a weird turn in an article that I thought would explore the basic scientific challenges of nanotech and why we don’t have it yet. I do think that the erosion of religion has some negative externalities in modern society (ie. lack of easy meaning and direction in life and downfall of local community kinship), but no I don’t think that is the main reason why we don’t have nanotech specifically. I don’t even think that’s the primary reason we are more polarized politically now (my current thoughts lean towards changes in information consumption, communication, and trust in institutions).
But specifically nano-printers? Of course people want that, as much as people want quantum computing, fusion energy, brain-computer interfaces, and life-extension. The benefits are obvious, from the money-making opportunities alone. Maybe reality is just disapointing: it’s a harder problem than people originally expected without any economically viable intermediate steps (the kind that bolster AI reasearch now) so progress is stuck in a quagmire.
Mongolian BBQ is completely divorced from the ethnic cuisine of Mongolia, which is heavy in meat and fat and (within my limited knowledge) not very flavorful. I’ve watched a food vlog and … yeah, it’s fatty lamb boiled in plain broth. Food is subjective, but I’m sure that wasn’t what you were thinking.
What we know as Mongolian BBQ was actually invented in Taiwan on the 1950′s and given that name for a pretty arbitrary reasons. (As an aside how many food names with a country name are actually from that place? Usually it’s tenuous connections at best like how Hawaiian pizza was named because of pineapples and actually invented in Canada).