Yes, well, you are probably referring to the Borg, in which case the original designers of the technology went to far and the technology went haywire, producing a largely emotionless parasitic collective cybernetic life form which preys on other civilizations.


I hope that humans are smarter than this, and develop these technologies in a safe and moral manner as they become possible.

We are already doing primitive middle ground steps, as I point out, through GM and also through the Prostate cancer vaccine, which modifies a patients own white blood cells to destroy the cancer, and other approaches.

These are nano tech, but they are not yet the classic sci fi "Feynman's room at the bottom" nano-tech, at least not yet in most fields, and certainly not the self assembling or self replicating kind in most fields.

But chemists and materials scientists are learning to combine materials in ways previously not imagined to create extremely small systems and produce other useful machines; sensors, emitters, various actuators, transistors, etc.

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MRSA adapts to antibiotics, but if you could make a nano-particle or a nano-machine that could mechanically grind, pierce, or burn the bacteria, it might not be able to adapt to that at all.

For example, since it was discovered that MRSA doesn't grow on copper plated surfaces, it might be useful to attach a copper atom or copper compound to a normal antibiotic molecule and see if it penetrates the MRSA more efficiently, or provides any other anti-microbial benefits.

Of course, this would require some chemical genius or some form of nano-assembly to make this compound in a quantity large enough to do trials...