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.
Plot points I remember:
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.
It ...
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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?
Basically ...
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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.
Plot points:
There's a sort of environmental threat of weird never-fully-...
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Book with nano/biotech, maze/labyrinth, prisoners
I'm looking for some help identifying a book I read 10 - 15 years ago. I know this is probably a long shot, but extensive keyword searching Google bears no fruit.
The story is about a group of ...
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Novel with nanotech, a utopia isolated from grey goo, and an AI in the protagonist's head
The only reason I even remembered the plot was due to the nanite use. I don't think the plot is very original and is similar to at least a dozen other books written in the last 10 years, but I figured ...
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Book - Three teenagers find a spaceship and gain powers from headsets in it
I’ve tried to search for this book using keywords and quotes on Google, but I couldn’t find it.
In this book, three teenagers, a boy and two girls, find a lost spaceship that was camouflaging itself. ...
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Novel with an enemy Captain of a ship that has nanotech that causes his fingers to endlessly bifurcate
I was reading Novel about an AI (robot) becoming more human than the owner and the mention of probes that subdivided made me remember a paperback I read, I think on the early 2000s, maybe as a ...
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Novel about a man subject to nanotech experiments who ends up with an advanced starship
Looking for the title of a full length novel. The main character was in a research station and was subject of nanotech experiments that could cause deformity and death. He escapes and ends up with an ...
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Book about a man abducted by aliens and steals their ship
I read this a long time ago when I was young. I read it on my dad's kindle and have no idea what the title could be.
I believe it was about a man that was abducted by an alien ship and woke up after ...
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Book involving Alien Invasion, enslavement of human race
I know the details of the book well enough, but I can't remember the title or series title for the life of me. It is recent (Post 2008 or so). YA sci-fi. Set in the UK at modern times.
Book one, kid ...
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Trying to find a story about a woman and her story with nanotechnology
The plot is centered on a woman. She had a husband who was a scientist. He always told her stories about the future and their technology. She doesn't care much about it. I don't remember why but the ...
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Story about a man bringing nanomachines from the future to save his lover [duplicate]
Many years ago I read a short (?) sci-fi story that I've since lost track of.
Here's what I remember:
A man came from the future, met a girl, fell in love, told her he was from the future and (not ...
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Scifi novel. Colony on the moon, nanotech, sex changing journalist main character
I read a book years ago about a colony on the moon. Nanotechnology played a huge part in the story. No, it wasn't either of the Ben Bova moon books. In this one, the main character (and almost all the ...
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Can anyone tell me title or author of following story?
Can anyone tell me the title. Starts with hikers finding a cinder cone peak where none had existed previously in Death Valley. Aliens had landed nano machines which had spread and started to ...
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Are there signs that the Matrix holds any technological resemblance to out-of-universe computers?
I've read on several occasions here a tendency to assume that the Matrix as a technology is operated much like out-of-universe (i.e. "our world") computers: Assuming the Matrix runs in a ...
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Short story about aliens who use technology to surpass psychic abilities
I seem to remember the story being named "Limiting Factor", but the descriptions do not match.
Earth explorers find a planet where here are crocodile-like beings lazing in a sunny swamp. Suddenly a ...
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old woman, nanobots, crosslinked noodles, genetically engineered dog in a vest delivering a message
Book is similar in style and elements to "The Diamond Age". World demographics are mostly "old women". They hold most of the wealth and most of the political power. Young people have a hard time ...
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Book about nano-particles and enhanced soldiers
The book is about nano-technology. The people were practically immortal because they were enhanced with nano particles. There was a girl who was the slave of a billionaire and was known as his black/...
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A person contracts a biological pathogen that is collectively intelligent, forming a symbiosis [duplicate]
Trying to identify a story where:
A person (man/woman?) somehow contracts a pathogen that leans to communicate with him.
The pathogen is something like an amoeba.
the person is hunted by others ...
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Story about curing poverty by injecting the poor with nanotechnology?
This was probably an Analog short story. Plot involved infecting the dregs of society with nanotech that gave them motivation and valuable skills. There was an essential ethical component to this ...
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What was the earliest science fiction story to use nanotechnology?
What was the first use of nanotechnology in a science fiction story?
Richard Feynman gave a lecture "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" in 1959 which defined many of the concepts of the technology,...
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How smart are Borg nanoprobes?
By this I mean the following aspects of the same question:
Can an individual nanoprobe act intelligently?
Can a collection of nanoprobes (say in the same host) communicate with each other and act ...
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Book where everyone but one man had genetic modification
I remember, at some point, reading a book that I believe was a part of a short series.
It was about a time when nearly everyone had some level of genetic modification, and one man for some reason or ...
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Title of story about Nanobots causing a nuclear apocalypse
I read a short story that was part of a series within the last three years. I think it was published then. I remember really enjoying it and I wanted to read more but I can't remember the title of it ...
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Borg nanites prior to First Contact and "Scorpion"
Are there any references, either in the official canon or in the Extended Universe, to Borg nanites and/or nanoprobes prior to First Contact and the Voyager two-parter "Scorpion"?
During TNG, the ...
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Story involving a Nanotechnology breakdown
I am looking for a book that I read awhile ago but can't remember the name or author. The storyline is basically as follows:
Nanotechnology is taking over the world and the rich are basically ...
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Looking for the title of a book about a ships crew altering themselves as needed through nanomachines
I can't remember many details as I read the book 6-7 years ago, but I recall that the crew would lie down in a tub filled with nanomachines and be transformed when they awoke.
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Looking for a science fiction story collection about nanotechnology — included a story about anti-graffiti paint
I remember reading it while in middle school in English in the United States, so the latest it would have come out was 1998. I don't remember if it was all one author, or even the same universe. These ...
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What happened to Wesley's nanites?
In ST:TNG episode "Evolution", we see that Wesley's nanites are dropped off on Kavis Alpha IV. Do we ever hear of these particular species of nanites ever again (perhaps in sources other than the TV ...
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Looking for title of book about a man with nanomachines in blood
Back in the 90's I read a book and I have not been able to remember an author or a title, numerous searches have also found nothing.
I can only remember random details about the book. It is about a ...
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Book about a teacher that is infected by a students father with nanobots, then has to escape because his people kill anyone with nanobots
I read it around 2002. The man lived in a community that was very old world and when he was infected with the nanobots it meant he would be killed. While escaping, his wife is killed. When he ran away ...
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Story about glass particles with memory
I'm looking for a story I read about 40 years ago in which there is memory retaining glass... At first people place sheets of the glass in lovely places, so that it can be fitted into a window frame ...
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grey goo planet which assimilates tech and spreads through the galaxy
I read this short story a while back about this grey goo planet, figured one of you might have happened upon it.
starts off with a space fleet investigating a planet
grey, completely spherical, ...
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What's the title of a book about a startup which writes bioware for eyes?
Please identify this book where the protagonist is a programmer who writes software/bioware for eyes. His startup company is working on a newer version of the bioware and is in a race with the ...
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Book series with an astronomer exploring a golden egg shaped spaceship in Earth orbit [duplicate]
So when I was younger I got a series of books involving an astronomer with Kung fu abilities who discovers a rogue object orbiting Jupiter. Next, he and his team figure out that it has left Jupiter's ...
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Novel called "(Something) World". Nanotechnology / world-wide speed limit displayed in the sky, enforced by satelite weapons
The protagonist awakes to find himself with amnesia, and the story is his journey to self-discovery. Two features of the story are nanotechnology in his body, and a world-wide speed limit, displayed ...
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War with remotely piloted micro-machines
While waiting to get onto a computer booked at the local library about 2 years ago, I picked up a sci-fi novel whose name and author I cannot recall and began reading.
Elements of the opening part of ...
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Story Identification - sci fi novel with nanotech [closed]
It takes place in a desert city (Mojave, I think) - there is nanotech, a fair amount of dystopia, genetic modification, and I think someone sprouts wings in the end...kind of cyberpunk-ish.
