 Wowk is also known for early theoretical work on future applications of molecular nanotechnology, especially cryonics, nanomedicine, and optics.In the early 1990s he wrote that nanotechnology would revolutionize optics, making possible virtual reality display systems optically indistinguishable from real scenery as in the fictitious Holodeck of "Star Trek".These systems were described by Wowk in the chapter "Phased Array Optics" in the 1996 anthology "Nanotechnology