I find it odd that, even though we have all this innovation in materials science, we still haven't found functional replacements for the 6000+ hydrocarbon derivatives used in virtually every industry on Earth. Beyond farming and renewable energy, do stories about preparing for a new material culture that spans the full scope of materials in society exist? These new chemicals allegedly have some place in the real world, but for whom and at what cost?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/google-deep-mind-ai-predicts-2-million-material-structures-for-real-world-tech