The Law of Disassembly

An anonymous reader writes "Smalltimes has a story by Douglas Mulhall, author of Our Molecular Future, which discusses molecular nanotechnology (MNT) disassembly, and argues for what he calls the 'Law of Disassembly,' that 'every MNT product must be disassemblable by at least one [of several possible methods].' The article ends with some good suggestions for raising awareness of this important issue. Gratuitous quote: This is disturbingly reminiscent of "nuclear power will give us clean limitless energy, and don't worry, we'll deal with the byproducts later because we'll have the tools by then.""

Comments

Build bugs to build bugs

[djneko]

to take other bugs apart, for raw material to build other bugs, which are also seek-and-destroy bugs to bite bad bugs back and beat them to bits. But what if the seek-and-destroy bugs have programming bugs that causes them to break out of their methods and go completely bugfuck?

The 3 laws of Nanotechnology

[servognome]

1. A nanite may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A nanite must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A nanite must be microwavable and explode in a flurry of sparks and smoke

No!

[Surlyboi]

Nanobot Five is alive! No disassemble!

Re:Some nanotech shouldn't be disassembled.

[24-bit Voxel]

You know the world's in the shitter when a drive by molecular disassembling becomes a valid survival concern.

As for waste storage, I'm all for the ago old plan of sending it to Jersey COD.

I, for one, welcome our new Gray Goo Overlords!

[Nova Express]

Sorry, had to be said. ;-)