nanotech adj.
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1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 5 July (Mag. section)
The greatest risk would be the possibility of a nanotech industrial accident, in which some bionic bozo escapes from a vat of chemicals and ravages the populace.
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1993
Poul Anderson
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We can’t continue sending our robots and our nanotech molecules scurrying around to find out whatever’s going wrong and repair the damage.
Harvest of Stars (1994) 442 -
1994 Interzone July 23/1
The scars are gone, nanotech repairers of my own make certain of that.
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1994
Ian McDonald
The biotechnician’s natural predilection for the small and perfectly organized led them to invest in the emerging nanotech corporadas.
Necroville (1995) 128 -
1995 Interzone Jan. 56/3
After a utopian period in which cities were enlivened and reshaped by myriads of coordinated microscopic machines, nanotech plagues and information wars have decimated the world’s population.
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1999
William Gibson
Even in Tokyo, seventeen-point-eight of your markedly technofetishistic populace refuses to this day to set foot in a nanotech structure.
All Tomorrow's Parties liv. 224 -
2005
Charles Stross
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The degenerate cores of the traditional stock markets are in free fall, the old smokestack microprocessor and biotech/nanotech industries crumbling before the onslaught of matter replicators and self-modifying ideas.
Accelerando 153 -
2016 SFX Magazine Nov. 119/4
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A nanotech virus is transforming people into monsters.
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2018
Nnedi Okorafor
My latest success! Nanotech wings. Emergency flight in a can. I am awesome.
Gone in Shuri (#1) Dec. (2019) (unpaged)
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