Shift
Wool, Book 5
by Hugh Howey
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Science Fiction and Fiction.
In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even selfpropagate. In the same year, the CBS network reaired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A sim...
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