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== External links == * [http://lifeboat.com/ex/global.ecophagy Some Limits to Global Ecophagy by Biovorous Nanoreplicators, with Public Policy Recommendations] * [http://www.crnano.org/papers.htm#Goo Safe exponential manufacturing] Paper critical of "grey goo," summarized in article [http://www.physorg.com/news170.html Nanotechnology pioneer slays "grey goo" myths] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20180703013640/http://www.nanotec.org.uk/finalReport.htm Online edition of the Royal Society's report ''Nanoscience and nanotechnologies: opportunities and uncertainties''] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180055/http://www.nanotec.org.uk/ UK Government & Royal Society commission on Nanotechnology and Nanoscience] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023432/http://people.ee.duke.edu/~dwyer/courses/ece299.05/Drexler%20vs%20Smalley.pdf Nanotechnology: Drexler and Smalley make the case for and against 'molecular assemblers'] ([[Richard Smalley]] argues that laws of chemistry imply it will be impossible to ever create "self-replicating nanobots" whose abilities to assemble molecules are significantly different than those of biological self-replicators. Some pro-nanobot responses to Smalley's argument can be found at [http://www.imm.org/publications/sciamdebate2/smalley/ Debate About Assemblers β Smalley Rebuttal], [http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-drexler-smalley-debate-on-molecular-assembly The Drexler-Smalley debate on molecular assembly], [http://www.crnano.org/Debate.htm Of Chemistry, Nanobots, and Policy], and [http://www.foresight.org/nano/istherev.html Is the Revolution Real?]) * [https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/plain/A879933 Nanotechnology and the Grey Goo Problem], ''BBC'' {{Molecular nanotechnology footer}} {{Doomsday}} [[Category:Artificial life]] [[Category:Doomsday scenarios]] [[Category:1980s neologisms]] [[Category:Nanotechnology]] [[Category:Multi-robot systems]] [[Category:Self-replicating machines]] [[Category:Thought experiments in ethics]]
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