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Maybe we’ll eventually deploy nano-tech antibiotics. But what if the nano-bots get a virus!
by FredPret 6y ago
Maybe we’ll eventually deploy nano-tech antibiotics.
But what if the nano-bots get a virus!
- ben_w 6y agoAntibiotics, and bacteriophage viruses, kinda are nanotechnology (albeit in the same limited sense that steel dates back a thousand years). You might like bacteriophages — viruses which eat bacteria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage
- FredPret 6y agoKurzgesagt has a cool video on phages. But I meant the grey goo kind of nanobot
- ben_w 6y agoWe are the goo ;) (I want to finish that “goo gatchoo”, musical puns aside, we are what grey goo is capable of and what it ends up looking like).
- FredPret 6y agoInteresting idea, never considered that angle. Perhaps I should clarify that like my goo to obey commands written in ACGT, and not some future kind using C