Gray Goo Can’t Do All The Things You Say It Can Do

skill fiction writer give too much mention to nanotech , which has n’t achieved all that much in existent life ( besides give us pretty pictures ) so far . But science fiction authors claim it can do everything , from destroy the world to turning you into a superhuman . Complains Santa Cruz SF writer Christopher Bradley :

Never before has a technology that ’s done so little go so far in lit . We can essentially do almost nothing useful with nanotechnology , but sci - fi writers woolgather up these magical scenarios where nanotechnology can do anything and everything . It can make multitude gods or put down the world in a variety of gray goo scenario . beware you , we can do basically nothing with it decently now . But discussions of gray-haired goo scenarios give a fabricated depth to a book . There happens a lot in mod sci - fi literature , I find .

He also explains why Charles Stross ’ vision of the future in Good Book lke Glasshouse and Accelerando is altogether based on Dungeons & Dragons , which is an argument I had n’t see before . [ cpxprex ]

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