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by throwaway60607 1148 days ago
Humans, animals, plants, microbes, etc are that technology. Life is self-replicating nanotechnology machines. If synthetic biology works - and we know it does, we have already created a synthetic cell - it's perfectly possible. Not to mention it could evolve on its own. Humans are Von Neumann probes in our environment.