[randito]

Great question, and great observation, too.

It's hard to say. The pace of change is happening so fast, it's hard to predict.

Disclaimer: Massive hand-waving here

But, I think these exotic materials will be stepping stones to other things. I don't think we can get next-gen AI until we can build skeumorphic neural chips with memristor-type arrays with massive densities.

You can't get to nano-tech until you can predicatively arrange atoms. And once you can do that, you can only other exotic materials.

High temperature (or room temperature) super conductors will allow massive magnetic fields for common applications -- not just high-end MRI's that require cooling.

Graphene is so weird it can pretty much do anything.

I think the under-pinning for all these advances is material science. For me, it will be tech that looks like magic.