Heck, once the dream of achieving artificial general intelligence arrives, some pessimists seem to think the only debate is whether we're obliterated by Terminator - style robots or turned into grey goo by nanobots. (digitaltrends.com)
The purposefully planned sameness is often extolled as a «feature not a bug,» and many cryptocurrency enthusiasts like to daydream for when regulators and financial institutions of our own world disappear, eaten up by grey goo nanites funded by bitcoins. (coindesk.com)
Then again, consider what K. Eric Drexler of the Foresight Institute calls the «grey goo problem» in his book Engines of Creation, a cult favorite among the nanotech set. (discovermagazine.com)