Try to imagine London in a hypothetical-imaginary future where Nanotechnology and Machines are so advanced that a bunch of scientists are studying and testing Architectural Nanobots able to build architectural components in one thousand seconds.
But according to Murphy's law "Anything that can go wrong, will." and an Earthquake strikes London during this experiment releasing the architectural Nanobots from the artificial lab.
The Nanobots continues to do what they are programmed to do but this time they use London as their ground and a massive mechanical architectural reproduction of the city takes place...
SOME RESEARCH ON NANOTECHNOLOGY AND THE THEORY OF "GREY GOO"
Nanotechnology is defined as the science which deals with matter on atomic or molecular scale and with the developments of robots and devices of that size.
Within this field in 1986 the nanotechnology pioneer Eric Dexler in his book "Engines of Creation" introduced for the first time the theory of a possible "Grey Goo".
The word refers to a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario in which self-replicating out-of-control nanobots consume all matter on earth while building just replications of themselves.
The passage below is extracted from the book and explains a simple concept behind nanotechnology functions.
"imagine such a replicator floating in a bottle of chemicals, making copies of itself…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 — if the bottle of chemicals hadn't run dry long before."
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