Nanotechnology, from the recent history to (un)predictable future

The diversity of nano-themes (nano science, nanoelectronics, nano materials, and other nano-something), did not result in sharper focus on the substantial processes behind the all of it. The author suggests that nanotechnology originated from the methods of microelectronics from the late1980´s: ever growing complexity of mixed CMOS and bipolar planar silicon technology, and concept of MEMS devices as a way of integrating functions (and thinking) from former mutually exclusive area of electronics, machine engineering, biology, chemistry etc. The fully developed diagnostic methods enabled deep and accurate insights into the structure of material, and the methods of producing thin layered structures produce new complex entities with exotic physical and/or chemical properties. What is the impact of nanotechnology on the world outside the usual scientific community, from something like small business to corporative imperial giants? The author presents two examples of nano structured products: substrates for TEM and new type of MOS cell based on graphene and silicon as very appropriate cases for the business environment. Nanotechnology without any doubt can give complex structures with enlarged computing and processing power in very near future. But, what is it all about? Do we really need a smart toilet bowl, wich processes Tbyte information to make our stay in such a place more meaningful? In other words, do we need such an intense development just to produce new gadgets? From commercial point of view, the answer is a big YES. From the point of view of global human society progress, the answer is no. The rest of the paper presents the concept of the anisotropic boundaries as a product of already reached state of the nanotechnology, what boundaries can change the global civilizational paradigm, turning the meaning of the nano-something from the gadgetry to a new chapter in the evolution of human society.