[serf]

>Just look in this thread, where you have people asking 'what could possibly go wrong?' Pop culture makes people think nanotech = tiny robots = grey goo destroying the world.

it would take a serious lack of imagination on my part to look at something like a custom protein and not think about the possible disastrous consequences that follow -- let alone something being described to me as a 'molecular robot', even without a lot of pop-culture influence.

[XorNot]

Yes but conversely nerve gas exists, and is far more destructive - as well as just regular pathogens.

Unless these things are capable of replication (they're not) then they're just an advanced version of regular drugs.