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Friendly nanobots to fight them? The same way we fight normal viruses, I guess.

• iron_ball 11y ago
  See The Diamond Age, where the poor areas were covered in "toner", the remains of nanobots killed in an endless self-perpetuating war.
• ilostmykeys 11y ago
  we fight normal viruses mostly one at a time like Ebola, Zika etc. Imagine a million variants invade the human and live stock species at once. How would we deal with that? It's terrifying.
  • burkaman 11y ago
    That just doesn't feel very realistic to me. Weapons like that don't just appear out of nowhere. I imagine countermeasures could be developed at roughly the same pace as nanobot threats. And if not, we'll deal with it the same way we dealt with nukes. Hopefully it would go a little better this time, since we have a little apocalyptic experience to learn from. And why is this limited to nanobots? Wouldn't it be easier to develop a million variations of existing biological viruses, rather than creating a million "species" of nanobots from scratch?