Just to note that "nanotechnology" in the real world doesn't tend to mean "self-replicating"... and hive-mind computers have never come up in any conference on nanostructures *I've* ever attended. Most of them have focussed on obscure properties of doping or conductivity or fringe quantum effects. Science fiction, for the most part, has a highly unrealistic and improbable take on nanotechnology...
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Just to note that "nanotechnology" in the real world doesn't tend to mean "self-replicating"... and hive-mind computers have never come up in any conference on nanostructures *I've* ever attended. Most of them have focussed on obscure properties of doping or conductivity or fringe quantum effects. Science fiction, for the most part, has a highly unrealistic and improbable take on nanotechnology...