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....of intelligent life on Earth by releasing such nanobots into the environment. 9 The technology to produce a destructive nanobot seems considerably easier to develop than the technology to create an effective defense against such an attack (a global nanotech immune system, an active shield [23]) It is therefore likely that there will be a period of vulnerability during which this technology must be prevented from coming into the wrong hands. Yet the technology could prove hard to regulate, since it doesn t require rare radioactive isotopes or large, easily identifiable manufacturing ....

....a period of vulnerability during which this technology must be prevented from coming into the wrong hands. Yet the technology could prove hard to regulate, since it doesn t require rare radioactive isotopes or large, easily identifiable manufacturing plants, as does production of nuclear weapons [23]. Even if effective defenses against a limited nanotech attack are developed before dangerous replicators are designed and acquired by suicidal regimes or terrorists, there will still be the danger of an arms race between states possessing nanotechnology. It has been argued [26] that molecular ....

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Drexler, K.E. (1985). Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology. London: Forth Estate. URL: http://www.foresight.org/EOC/index.html.

....to place several million artificial neurons on a WSI circuit. Molecular Electronics [10] is the attempt to use molecules as computational devices, thus increasing computing speeds and allowing machines to be built with an Avogadro number of components. Nanotechnology is even more ambitious [11,12], aiming at nothing less than mechanical chemistry, i.e. building nanoscopic assemblers capable of picking up an atom here and putting it there. We already know that a nanotechnology is possible, because we have the existence proof of biochemistry. Nanoscopic assemblers could build any substance, ....

....can imagine whole neural circuits being formed in this way, where differentiation would allow certain cells to modify their state depending upon the states of their neighbours. With future computing technologies (e.g. Wafer Scale Integration (WSI) 9] Molecular Electronics [10] Nanotechnology [11,12], and Quantum Computing [13] this kind of circuit growing will become possible, even necessary. WSI will be able to put ten million artificial neurons on a ULSI wafer by the mid 1990s [9] and at the other extreme, Quantum Computing promises to store a bit per atom, thus allowing machines with 10 ....

K.E. Drexler, "Engines of Creation : The Coming Era of Nanotechnology", Doubleday, 1986.

.... Biological Computation is Universal by Brian Mayoh at Aarhus University Universal molecular computation is both a popular theme of physicists [IEEE94] and biologists[Ha87] and a popular dream for computer scientists[Dr86,La87]. Molecular computers will not only be much smaller than traditional computers (about 10 12 bits in the space required by one bit nowadays) but they will also be more efficient (about 2x10 19 ops J compared with current 10 9 ops J and theoretical maximum 34x10 19 ops J) and very much faster (about ....

K.E. Drexler "Engines of creation: the coming era of nanotechnology" Anchor Press 1986

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K.E. Drexler, "Engines of Creation : The Coming Era of Nanotechnology", Doubleday, 1986.

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