A brief note on the historical context of nanobots.
With specific regards to nanobots I was first aware of them in the mainstream media in 1995. They used all time poster boy Richard Thomas (aka 'John-Boy Walton') to front the production. It was in 'The Outer Limits' television series. The specific episode was called The New Breed.
Here is a brief summary of the episode:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667978/
The Outer Limits was full of subject matter which most Avalonians are familiar with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Out...995_TV_series)
I remember John-Boy's episode so vividly as it freaked me right out. I was a bioscience undergraduate at the time. We were taking our first baby steps with nanobot technology and I was already putting rudimentary two and twos together and getting alarm bells instead of four.
Also part of the bioscience undergraduate study of the era was a genetics lecturer who had us designing bacterial and viral bioweapons.
Go figure, folks.
'The New Breed'.
Good grief.
Normally I'd find a funny angle for posts like this to at least cheer myself up. There isn't one.
The rubber is seriously meeting the road now. Deal with it like a warrior for humanity. Or don't.




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