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2025
grey_goo
grey goo
English
Alternative forms
gray goo
(
Chiefly US
)
Noun
grey
goo
a
hypothetical
end of the world
event
involving
nanotechnology
in which
out-of-control
self-replicating
nanobots
consume all
life
on
Earth
Etymology
Coined by Eric Drexler in his 1986 book
Engines of Creation
.
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