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The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas
An interstellar ship, Invincible, lands on an uninhabited planet and encounters a kind of mechanical life, consisting of autonomous self-replicating machines. Lem uses the situation to imagine the possibility that autonomous, mechanical forms could succeed in becoming part of the natural evolution of a world. Select an invention:
Inorganic Evolution |
Metal Insects |
Nanomachine Swarm (Black Cloud) - tiny machines work together |
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