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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Why was Darth Vader given a downgraded version of General Grievous's mechanics?
Darth Vader was given obsolete technology for his suit, as can be seen in this question. It seems odd that he wouldn't have been given similar technology. Why was this done?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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