On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

On 26Apr2018 1112, Richard Aiken wrote:

How about injectors built into a cloud of nanobots? Those 'bots which make
it inside any particular victim network with each other (possibly using the
victim's own nervous system?), evaluate the dose needed to effect him/her
and then deliver that *exact* dose.

Sure, why not? We're talking magic here, anyway, so whatever.

As Phil said, we're likely to be surprised by what nanobots will be doing soon in the real world . . .

https://newatlas.com/nanobot-micromotors-deliver-nanoparticles-living-creature/35700/

Those unclassified trials took place over three years ago. At the pace such tech tends to advance, just imagine what *classified* nanotech might already be capable of accomplishing.

Richard Aiken

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