Arya writes "Grey Goos' Nanotech Comic Strip Looks at the Light Side of the Human/Technology Relationship

The First Comic for Nanoheads Now on NanoApex

March 10, 2005 – As our story begins, a group of highly advanced nanobots, built for hazardous duty and dubbed "Grey Goos," have escaped from the National Transistor Assembly Labs. These little critters, each with a different technical specialty and a distinct personality, look rather like drops of soft ice cream in hiking boots. They end up in New York City, living in a loft with Dorothea (Dot) Kalm and Globo Bill, a couple of "constructs" who also have escaped from the same lab. Meanwhile, scientists at the lab have created a nanocop they've named Blue Goo, whose job is to round up the wayward Grey Goos and return them to the lab.

Read entire release here
Read comic strip here"

Ed. note in extended copy. Ed. When I first read this submission my reaction was along the lines of "Oh-no, this is all we need." That was primarily due to the choice of the names for the groups of nanobots. But as I thought about it more I considered that perhaps a little humor might make this entire discussion a little less good camp/bad camp. Now a lot will depend on how they spin this, particularly whether the "Grey Goos" can self-replicate or not. So here may be an opportunity to contribute ideas that make nanobots a little less scary than certain individuals/groups make them out to be. For example the "Grey Goos" could be powered by Gd¹⁴⁸ power sources that run down after a couple of weeks.

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 10th, 2005 at 12:15 PM and is filed under News, Press Releases. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.