Questions tagged [nanotechnology]
For questions about "nanotechnology", the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. A common trope in science fiction works set in the future.
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Book series about a guy who is saved from an assassin by a crew, taken to their lair and taught magic, before being sent back in time
Looking for a series of books featuring sci-fi, time-travel and magic that I read around 10 years ago.
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Book opens up with the MC having a family and living in a well-guarded ...
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Sci-fi book (all-knowing cow, almost grey goo beginning, different universe/dimension)
Someone created self-replicating nanobots that replicated enough only to replace every other few nano particles. The consequence is that privacy is impossible as every nanobot has a camera and you can ...
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Man invents immortality, loses wife, spends life of the universe looking for her
I read a short story online several years ago (between 2008 and 2016) that dealt with the discovery of nanotech based immortality and a man's search for his wife through the life of the universe.
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Sci-fi short story about a teacher who was being studied to learn how to get robots to replace teachers in classrooms
Looking to identify a sci-fi short story I read in high school.
The story was about a teacher, the last in the country (I think), who was being studied by an AI/government group to learn how to get ...
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Sci-fi novel about search for immortality using nanobots while also causing a pandemic
I read this novel about 15-20 years ago, most probably somewhere online (though can't remember where). It was fairly new at the time (not older than 5-10 years). So I guess mid-90s to early 00s.
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First appearance of nano-tech on screen
Nanotechnology as per Wikipedia is
the use of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale for industrial purposes. The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology referred to the ...
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Novel where single-atom blades bounce off from each other
A long while ago (5-10 years) I read a science fiction novel in which characters dueled with nanotechnology blades that are Sharpened to a Single Atom.
One aspect I found interesting was that the ...
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Nanotech arms-race short story - nanodevice kills people who have read Drexler
I think I read this short story online (and I think it was quite short) around 2000. The main character has a friend who is enthusiastic about nanotechnology and has a copy of Drexler's Engines of ...
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Alien Nanotech Builds Space Travel Portal
There was a series of books that I read part of back in the 1980s in trade paperback form published in the US. It was newly published then I think. It featured an alien race that had perfected ...
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What's the first appearance of monomolecular wire or nanofilament (extremely thin, superstrong, hence cuts almost anything)?
There's a pivotal scene in Larry Niven's short story, "The Borderland of Sol" in which Beowulf Shaeffer uses a length of Sinclair monofilament -- a monomolecular wire as strong as molecular ...
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Short story about aliens who want to trade items for information, stories, jokes etc
So the aliens sent down pods, maybe they were phones, requesting info and would give you things in return. I remember a guy asked for a device that could make anything you want using nanotechnology. ...
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A novel about a police operation in a future with nanotechnology
I read a story years ago (1990s perhaps) about police work in the future. I don't remember the title or author, but the main character was a policewoman. The climax of the story was a major police ...
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Book that involves sentient nanotechnology integrating itself as a "digital assistant" in nine people
I can't quite place the name of this book. I thought it was The Gift, but I was wrong. The book was in English and I don't remember the year. I feel like saying more recently, circa 2017?
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What does the term 'serum' refer to in science fiction stories? [closed]
Most definitions say that it is a component of blood that has been in a centrifuge, but I haven't seen any definitions that is associated with sci-fi.
I often came across this word when people talk ...
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Sci-fi story about cubes/threads attracted to sentient beings that entangle/kill them
I read this science-fiction story probably about a decade ago. I vaguely remember the cover featuring a pink cube.
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There's a sort of environmental threat of weird never-fully-...
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