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SciFiEye: Interstitial 11

The carrion crows are circling the neighborhood, each looking for a tragic moment to take back to the nest.  Something to remember this day by.

 

Retasking biology

Source: http://www.artofthecell.com/blog

 

It’s one of the great misconceptions, that nanotech will be “machines” as we know them now.  Most likely they will be assembled by clever tricks of chemistry and conscripted biological processes.  That’s not to say that individually assembled mechanical machines are out entirely, but when you are working at a near-molecular level, it will be much more efficient to co-opt existing processes rather than reinventing them.