Het einde door grey goo

[Cdude]

So says a Duke University engineer, who believes that the next generation of these logic circuits at the heart of computers will be produced inexpensively in almost limitless quantities. The secret is that instead of silicon chips serving as the platform for electric circuits, computer engineers will take advantage of the unique properties of DNA, that double-helix carrier of all life's information.
In his latest set of experiments, Chris Dwyer, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, demonstrated that by simply mixing customized snippets of DNA and other molecules, he could create literally billions of identical, tiny, waffle-looking structures.
Dwyer has shown that these nanostructures will efficiently self-assemble, and when different light-sensitive molecules are added to the mixture, the waffles exhibit unique and "programmable" properties that can be readily tapped. Using light to excite these molecules, known as chromophores, he can create simple logic gates, or switches.

http://www.physorg.com/news192801007.html

Grey goo (alternatively spelled gray goo) is a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all matter on Earth while building more of themselves,[1][2] a scenario known as ecophagy ("eating the environment").[3]

[Heftruck]

Not this shit again.

[RodeLantaarn]

Hilarisch. Alsof DNA op zich een magische molecule is.

[Abraxas]

Replicators?
Lijkt wel erg veel op Stargate.

[Alboreto]

"De lift" iemand?

[Cdude]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door RodeLantaarn

Hilarisch. Alsof DNA op zich een magische molecule is.

Dat is het ook ...alé met de juiste eiwitten.
Artikel is geen SF !!! Grey goo wel maar dat heb ik er blijgeplakt.

[AlbertBible]

Not this shit again.