Technology is going out of hands

The increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans in recent decades due to the increase of Greenhouse gases is known as Global warming. Similarly the consumtion of all living matter on Earth while building more and more of self-replicating Nanorobots is known as Grey goo.

Grey goo refers to a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all living matter on Earth while building more of themselves.
The term is usually used in a science fiction context. In a worst-case scenario, all of the matter in the universe could be turned into goo, killing the universe’s inhabitants. The disaster is posited to result from an accidental mutation in a self-replicating nanomachine used for other purposes, or possibly from a deliberate doomsday device.

Thus the first replicator assembles a copy in one thousand seconds, the two replicators then build two more in the next thousand seconds, the four build another four, and the eight build another eight. At the end of ten hours, there are not thirty-six new replicators, but over 68 billion. In less than a day, they would weigh a ton; in less than two days, they would outweigh the Earth; in another four hours, they would exceed the mass of the Sun and all the planets combined.

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