nano n.
= nanotechnology n.; (also) = nanobot n.
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1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 5 July (Mag. section) 35 (heading)
Just say nano.
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1990 Queen of Angels (1991) .ii. 11
Greg Bear
News of some late progressive insult to the arts nano or another outraging medium compelled them all to laugh, full of hate and envy.
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1990 Heads 26
Greg Bear
High-quality surgical nano wasn’t enough to do the trick.
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1993 Moving Mars 109
Greg Bear
By mid-twenty-one, nanotechnology factories were inexpensive; nano recyclers could provide raw materials from garbage; data and design reigned supreme.
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1993 Moving Mars 297
Greg Bear
Nano fibers will make neural connections within an hour of the implanting, and you should be able to experience heightened abilities—certainly heightened knowledge—within twenty-four hours.
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1993 Moving Mars 109
Greg Bear
Wars declined, the labor market fluctuated wildly as developing countries joined in—exacerbated by nano and other forms of automation…
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1993 Moving Mars 351
Greg Bear
In just twenty-four hours, architectural nano delivered and activated by a squadron of shuttles made a solid, moderately comfortable preliminary structure, a hideaway near the edge of the plateau.
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1993 Moving Mars 428
Greg Bear
Medical nano filled my bloodstream, rooting out problems, controlling my tendency to slip into shock.
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1995 Ahead! in Interzone (#95) May 33/2
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Ian Watson
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But even at speeds far slower than that of light, surely nanos in tiny vessels could reach the furthest part of our own galaxy within, say, 20 million years at most.
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2020 Anthropocene Rag iii. 38
Alex Irvine
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They said that if you got too close, robots would come down out of the sky and kill you, or the ground itself would turn into monsters that would eat you, or that defense nanos would turn you into gray goo.
Research requirements
antedating 1987
Earliest cite
in Washington Post
Research History
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 2020 cite from Alex Irvine.Added to the OED in June 2003, with an earliest cite from 1987.
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