Grant Fjermedal

gray goo n.	1986 G. Fjermedal Tomorrow Makers xvii. 246 One night I went to the MIT Nanotechnology Study Group with Eric Drexler... I had asked Eric’s wife, Chris Peterson, about the darker side of the technology. Chris, an MIT chemistry graduate, said, ‘It’s called the gray-goo problem among people who have started to think about this.’ She then went on to describe scenarios in which bacteria-size robots could prove more devastating to life on Earth than even nuclear bombs…. Such bacteria-size robots would multiply insanely, mindlessly consuming anything and everything that was carbon based, which is to say all life upon the planet, after which the robots could begin eating the rocks, eating the very planet upon which they had been created.