From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 13:05:26 MST
>From: "Billy Brown" <bbrown@transcient.com>
>
>Against the threat of artificial pathogens, including gray goo, the
>appropriate defense is nanotech immune systems. I would expect this
>technology to grow out of medical research, as we move from treating
>natural
>diseases to guarding against artificial ones and finally to regulating
>populations of nanobots. That implies that the general population (and
>their pets and possessions) will tend to develop significant resistance to
>simple nanobot attacks over time.
What is the difference between a "simple" nanobot attack and a complex
nanobot attack? If a zillion nanobots invade my body and commence to
dismantle me molecule by molecule, is that a simple nanobot attack? Do you
invision some vaccine to boost my immune system from this sort of
dismantling?
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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