Attack of the Gray Goo
May 20th 2009 21:15
On some future day, there will be an accidental release of nanobots from a high tech laboratory.
What are nanobots? Nanobots are tiny machines smaller than a human hair. The lab that makes these bots will create them with the best of intentions and for wonderful purposes. But the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry and the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Whether by accident or design, one day a biological plague will be loosed upon mankind and it may have no cure. The nanobots will be self replicating, immortal and life seeking. In order to make them work inside ourselves, they will have to detect and seek life. If by accident or design the nanobots decide to turn our cells into mush or to mutate us beyond mortal recognition, there may be little we can do to stop them. In theory they may be susceptible to electromagnetic pulse like those water robots in Matrix.
Or we might be able to set good bots to catch the bad ones. Or we might make all nanobots very, very mortal. Make them die quickly like those androids in Blade Runner. Only quicker. In order to save mankind from this threat I think we will want the nanobots to live for considerably less time than a single day. Just enough time to get through the blood stream, locate and kill the cancer and no more. We would also need to equip them with an override off switch that will inert them instantaneously.
Terror Doctor and the Plastic Peril.
What are nanobots? Nanobots are tiny machines smaller than a human hair. The lab that makes these bots will create them with the best of intentions and for wonderful purposes. But the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry and the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Whether by accident or design, one day a biological plague will be loosed upon mankind and it may have no cure. The nanobots will be self replicating, immortal and life seeking. In order to make them work inside ourselves, they will have to detect and seek life. If by accident or design the nanobots decide to turn our cells into mush or to mutate us beyond mortal recognition, there may be little we can do to stop them. In theory they may be susceptible to electromagnetic pulse like those water robots in Matrix.
Or we might be able to set good bots to catch the bad ones. Or we might make all nanobots very, very mortal. Make them die quickly like those androids in Blade Runner. Only quicker. In order to save mankind from this threat I think we will want the nanobots to live for considerably less time than a single day. Just enough time to get through the blood stream, locate and kill the cancer and no more. We would also need to equip them with an override off switch that will inert them instantaneously.
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