What safeguards can prevent nanotechnology horrors?
The problem of ecophagy, commonly termed “gray goo”, is one that has been known from the early days of nanotechnology. It has been studied in detail and effective methods of combating it have been produced. Future shock is altogether a much harder problem. The best ways to prevent this appear at present to be through education, allowing the general public to approach the change through a gradually built confidence in the technology. The possibilities made available to us through this new technology are “mind-numbing” to put it simply, reducing the shock is a prime candidate for sociological study at present. However it is a tricky subject and no perfect solutions may be possible, the change is vast and the future possibilities are even more so.
