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February 9th, 2004
BBC Airs Scaremongering Nanotech Documentary
Abstract:
The BBC saw fit to fuel the fires of fear over nanotech in last nights Horizon . While the web content is quite moderate, the prevailing image of nanotech the program presented was a swarm of CGI grey goo flying like a whirling dervish over a blasted desert (an image straight out of Michael Crichton's Prey, interspersed with time-lapse shots of reproducing cells and decaying animals as the commentary spoke of 'our day of reckoning'.