A Return to the Seminal Pool

Computer World gets all excited about the Singularity but warns “beyond the Singularity could lie the Gray Goo, posited by Eric Dexler of the Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology think tank. The Gray Goo is a return to the seminal pool, this one formed by nanomachines that destroy mankind.”

It seems that Computer World has joined the parade of denialists who discuss distorted versions of obsolete scenarios to the exclusion of all research in the field since 1990 (hold on, that phrase sounds familar…).

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