Our Molecular Future: How nanotechnology, robotics, genetics, and artificial intelligence will transform our world by Douglas Mulhall, Prometheus, $28, ISBN 1573929921
SELF-EVOLVING, self-replicating nanoscale robots will reproduce until all life on Earth suffocates under a sea of grey goo. That’s the much-debated view of nanotech naysayers like Bill Joy, techno-sage at Sun Microsystems (purveyors of grey boxes).
Many might argue that a self-replicating nanoscale machine—human DNA—is already doing its damnedest to suffocate the planet, through changing the climate and pollution. But plenty of others worry where research into genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology, known as the GRAIN technologies,…
