How to Destroy Civilization with Nanotechnology

Posted by Jesse Reynolds March 12, 2009

By Jesse Reynolds, Biopolitical Times | 03.12.2009

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https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical-times/how-destroy-civil…

Animator Ransom Riggs published this entertaining animated short on the "gray goo" nanotechnology scenario over at Mental Floss:

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