Topic summary
Grey goo
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Gray goo.
External links
- Some Limits to Global Ecophagy by Biovorous Nanoreplicators, with Public Policy Recommendations
- Safe exponential manufacturing Paper critical of "grey goo", summarized in article Nanotechnology pioneer slays "grey goo" myths
- Online edition of the Royal Society's report Nanoscience and nanotechnologies: opportunities and uncertainties
- UK Government & Royal Society commission on Nanotechnology and Nanoscience
- Nanotechnology: Drexler and Smalley make the case for and against 'molecular assemblers' (Richard Smalley argues that laws of chemistry imply it will be impossible to ever create "self-replicating nanobots" whose abilities to assemble molecules are significantly different than those of biological self-replicators. Some pro-nanobot responses to Smalley's argument can be found at Debate About Assemblers — Smalley Rebuttal, The Drexler-Smalley debate on molecular assembly, Of Chemistry, Nanobots, and Policy, and Is the Revolution Real?)
- Nanotechnology and the Grey Goo Problem, BBC