"William Mook" wrote in message
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Creating arrays of dust mite sized swarming elements that are solar
powered and capable of chomping through anything, as well as sensing
the environment around them

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/t...mallest-camera

(this too is an OLD picture - modern weaponeers will have better
smaller systems)

would be unstoppable as a plague.


Which could we survive better, man-made disease/weapons or
natural diseases?

I'm not so sure the man-made versions would be worse. For instance
HIV is so devastating partially due to how...non-lethal...it is for
such a long time. Allowing someone to carry and spread it far and wide
without knowing. Some disease that is extremely deadly would limit the total
damage to far fewer.

I don;t think human made systems can rival natural ones until we learn
how to use evolutionary processes to create them. As any process capable
of creating intelligence must define the ideal.