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Essay: Our Synthetic Futures by Rudy Rucker
Topic: Miscellaneous 9:56 pm EDT, May 29, 2007

One big worry is what nanotechnologists call the “gray-goo problem.” What’s to stop a particularly virulent SynBio organism from eating everything on earth? My guess is that this could never happen. Every existing plant, animal, fungus and protozoan already aspires to world domination. There’s nothing more ruthless than viruses and bacteria—and they’ve been practicing for a very long time.

Rudy Rucker on synthetic biology

Essay: Our Synthetic Futures by Rudy Rucker



 
 
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