nanotech adj.
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1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 5 July (Mag. section) 35
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 Harvest of Stars (1994) 442
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.
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1994 Human Waste in Interzone (#85) July 23/1
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Mary Gentle
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The scars are gone, nanotech repairers of my own make certain of that.
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1994 Necroville (1995) 128
Ian McDonald
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The biotechnician’s natural predilection for the small and perfectly organized led them to invest in the emerging nanotech corporadas.
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1995 Under Pressure in Interzone (#91) Jan. 56/3
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Paul J. McAuley
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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 All Tomorrow's Parties liv. 224
William Gibson
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Even in Tokyo, seventeen-point-eight of your markedly technofetishistic populace refuses to this day to set foot in a nanotech structure.
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2005 Accelerando 153
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.
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2016 SFX Magazine Nov. 119/4
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A nanotech virus is transforming people into monsters.
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2018 Gone in Shuri (#1) Dec. (2019) (unpaged)
Nnedi Okorafor
My latest success! Nanotech wings. Emergency flight in a can. I am awesome.
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