Polish writer Stanislaw Lem introduced intelligent sandstorms in his novel, the Invincible. In that novel, the spacecraft lands on an alien world. That was under the control of the technical creature that was the swarm of nanomachines. The techno-organism involved two parts.
The manufacturing system. That created those nanomachines. Those moving robots formed intelligent sand that could be nanorobots or quadcopters that formed intelligent dust or intelligent smoke. The system might use silicone as a raw material for the drone swarms. Those drone swarms used electromagnetic weapons to eliminate their enemies. Drones started to fly around the target, and then they aimed microwave transmitters at it.
When we think about this kind of system. Those nanomachines can boosted with living neurons. Those nanomachines can also carry things like antimatter, and one miniature robot can destroy large-size structures. That kind of technology is interesting and dangerous. Those nanomachines can create an intelligent entirety.
And if nobody stops the expanding population of those machines they can turn wiser than humans, if they have enough neurons. The large-size miniature machine-clouds can have the same computing power as supercomputers. In that case, those systems have regular microprocessors, but bioprocessors can make that drone swarm more intelligent than humans.
In some visions, those manufacturing units can look like some kind of snake. If they can move.
Researchers can install miniature manufacturing technology in humanoid robots. Those manufacturing platforms pull silicone and metals in them. And the manufacturing system turns that thing into the nanomachines. An interesting idea is that those systems can use hemoglobin batteries as power sources.
The miniature microchips and wireless energy transmitting that researchers can combine with the communication technology could make the sand bite-size miniature drones possible. Those miniature drones can make intelligent sandstorms into reality. The intelligent sandstorms can be dangerous because if those drones fly at very high speeds, they can act as bullet swarms.
Intelligent sandstorms are the next-generation tools for civil and military technology. Those nano-sized robots can swim in human blood vessels and make new-era medical treatments. But those machines can slip into houses and move around the communication cables. And they can eavesdrop on anything that the controller wants.
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