There is a great future in plastics. Think about it. He reports that scientists are discovering uses for this material such as conducting electricity, killing germs, fighting disease, and repairing damaged nerves.
Plastics are synthetic polymers which are pliable, lightweight, and cheap to make.
They are generally insulators and not conductors because their molecules lack the free electrons necessary for carrying current in materials like metals. However, in the 1970s, a Japanese researcher, Hidaki Shirakawa, accidentally produced a semi-conducting plastic when he botched an experiment. This technology is central to the advancement of computing and the Internet. The hope and goal from this new knowledge is to have plastic electronic components perform comparably to silicon at a fraction of the cost. However, since plastics are soft, electronic polymers, they are more prone to impaired performance.