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Catch and Destroy

February 16, 2015 future, Videogames, Writing Comments Off on Catch and Destroy

Image from Astrobiology Magazine online

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja507983x

 

Walter Jon Williams may have described it most clearly in his novel “Aristoi”, the idea that any nano-technological critter, given the ability to reproduce, can go bad and take over a whole environment, devouring everything it can reach.  If you are a cyberpunk/hard sci-fi fan, you may have heard of it as “Mataglap” or “Grey Goo”.  It begs the question, how do you control against a microscopically sized organism?  Or more to the point, how can you control against them on the fly, away from lab facilities and clean rooms?

Here and now, for biological organisms, there is a solution.  Specialized adhesive tapes that can be impregnated with chemical compounds to neutralize biological organisms.  The kinds of germs, bugs and viruses that many imagine the architecture of future nano-particles will be based upon.

As always, the link’s there at the top so you can read the original article for yourself and decide if you’re going to be taping the cracks around your windows closed in case the Measles epidemic comes to your street in suburbia.

 

Throttled back

January 21, 2015 future, Uncategorized, Videogames, Writing Comments Off on Throttled back

Custom rigs

The future is here, strangely enough.  3d printers can kit you out with a custom drone, you can create aggressive, combat ready items of clothing that deliver a jab or an electric shock if someone gets too close.  You can slip magnets under the skin  of your fingers (if you have a strong stomach and a lot of lidocaine) to get a tactile sense of the magnetic fields around you.  There are all these bits and bobs and emerging tech and inventive use cases that can be found in every corner of the world and, while they haven’t yet gelled into the inevitable dystopic future we all fear, the sheer number of things that we can do now that were just an idea less than 10 years ago is truly mind blowing.

 

 

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