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Grey Goo - Machine Cancer

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Nano Technology is a growing field that is still being explored. The idea that bacteria sized machines can be programmed to do a specific function is both exciting and scarey. The Grew Goo idea, is that if a machine's only purpose was to copy itself, it could potentially be a destructive force like a virus or cancer. Machines that use resources to make more machines could potentially create a destructive domino effect.

 

When Molecular Nano Technology creates machines that create machines that create machines.

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Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter at an atomic/molecular scale.
Nanotechnology is the umbrella term encompassing any science concerned with the manipulation of matter at a molecular or atomic scale, almost as if using individual atoms as tiny little legos.