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smoyer · 2020-02-19
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I have read through "Engines of Creation" (the book where this phrase was coined) three or four times and learn something new with each reading. I've also bought three copies because I keep giving it away (last time to a friend who became CEO of a nano-tech company). I'm not necessarily scared of the scenario described as gray goo in chapter 4 but I also think it's a good warning to nano-practitioners.
smoyer · 2018-03-04
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It's interesting that this nano-compound is made using self-assembly. What limits this process from producing other molecules? Could this be the beginning of the so-called "grey goo"? (http://amzn.to/2oG6mHR)
Randomly chose this off the bookshelf at a Borders in 1990 or so...turned out to be the most exciting book I've ever read. Then Terminator 2 came out and was 10x as amazing because I saw how it COULD really happen.