Re:Self-Assembly Shows Promise for Extending Moore’s Law
by DerpDerpDerp on Saturday July 12, 2014 @07:04PM
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Your analysis ignores the key point that bacteria operate on simple rules based entirely on local concerns, which is not the proposed case in the sci-fi story.
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Re:Self-Assembly Shows Promise for Extending Moore’s Law
by todayiamme on Monday July 14, 2014 @02:48PM
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So you're saying that top-down management or even peer-to-peer management will exist within the grey goo scenario? I'm somewhat skeptical about top-down management, as there would be enough nano-bots within a 1cm deep layer in a city the size of NYC to far outstrip the attempts of a complex entity to control them coherently. As far as peer-to-peer communication goes, then bacteria are already doing this; http://www.hhmi.org/research/cell-cell-communication-bacteri... and they still haven't covered us in grey goo.