“…Based on the flood of reviews [24-27, 58, 63, 89, 118, 121] and feature articles, [147,148] not to mention remarkable, high-profile papers [43,53,56,61,87,88,94,108,112,128,135,136,144,146] and news & views, [95,129,137,145] that have surfaced in the scientific literature which enjoyg lamour status duringt he past couple of years, research into wholly synthetic molecular machines appearst o have reached at ippingp oint. If this point in the rise of molecular machines [24,25] has indeed been reached, then the questions which arise are what next and where next?T he latter question is the easier of the two to answer:i ft he history of science tells us anything, it is that applications which find their way into our everyday lives are ap rerequisite for the recognition of an ew field of science.…”