Sentence of Dave has often discussed risk assessment . . . it's difficult to decide what to worry about in a world where so much unfiltered information is so readily accessible . . . and so I will place you on the horns of another anxiety-filled dilemma: should you worry more about Individuals Tending Towards Savagery, a radical Mexican anti-technology group that praises the writings of Ted Kaczynski and recently bombed two Mexican nano-technology professors at the Monterrey Technological Institute, or should you worry about their prediction: that nanotechnology research will result in the creation of nano-cyborgs, which will be able to self-replicate automatically without the help of humans and eventually form an exponentially increasing "gray-goo" that will smother all life on earth?
Didnt Updike write about this in Towards the End of Time?
ReplyDeletei didn't read that one-- did he? i could use it for class . . .
ReplyDeleteIt isn't a great book but it involves this little robot creatures that occassionally attack people and I think they evolved from some sort of nanotechnology. It's Updike so there's plenty of goo, but not grey goo.
ReplyDeletegrey? are you british now?
ReplyDeleteI favour grey to gray.
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