Grey goo

Stumbled upon the term "grey goo" which may have some kinda of relation to our project, took a little extract from the website.

Grey goo is a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all living matter on Earth while building more of themselves (a scenario known as ecophagy).

The term "grey goo" is usually used in a science fiction or popular-press context. In the worst postulated scenarios (requiring large, space-capable machines), matter beyond Earth would also be turned into goo (with "goo" meaning a large mass of replicating nanomachines lacking large-scale structure, which may or may not actually appear goo-like). The disaster is posited to result from a deliberate doomsday device, or from an accidental mutation in a self-replicating nanomachine used for other purposes, but designed to operate in a natural environment.

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Nano-Art?

Nanotechnology is a new type of field in science and technology and this being so new that scientists do not yet know of the limitations of nanotechnology.
The term Nano-Art is decribed as microscopically small sculptures and works of art which was one of the first uses of nanotechnology.

Nano-Bull -
The Osaka University in Japan was to build a sculpture of a bull by "10 by 7 micrometers" (one micrometer is one-thousandth of a millimeter) which is about the same size as a red blood cell, making this micro bull is the smallest model of an animal ever created.



http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2001/08/46370


IBM Logo-
IBM immediately responded by writing 'IBM' in single atoms, using a copper sheet as a canvas. This showing off between nanotech companies has now got to the point where they are employing artists with no prior scientific training to design ever more complex art works for them.




http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/event.php?id=3457012&lid=1

A post towards Nanotechnology

I came across this article a couple of months ago, and looking back, this is very relevant to our new approach to the quote (Nanotechnology!).

Here we see exactly how the more associated scientific term, nanotechnology can be integrated in such a relevant way into today's new media.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7266187.stm

As well as being very cool, this shows us how far technology has come and potentially could go in the future. Here nanotechnology is integrated into a form of locative media, which I recently argued as a tangent to the way we are programming our absence on the move. One feature I love is its ability to be powered by grass! - Have we programmed technological life using nanotechnology?

Evolution In The Classroom

I've just come across this article on a new, so called 'Evolution machine'.

Imagine being back at school for a second, in a biology lesson to be exact. Remember swabbing invisible bacteria, and then returning a week later to witness the results? - how about if you could witness the results momentarily?

I'm not sure on the exact rapidness of this technology, but I see this is another step in backing our quote. From a physical sense, this could potentially be literally programming life.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080408085508.htm