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"The whole problem of energy sources is going to be solved by little solutions, not by some big new piece of technology that does everything. We got into this crisis by believing that we had one big piece of technology that would do everything (oil)."
- Gregory Benford
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| Biological Circuit Fabrication | ||
| Creating an electronic circuit using biologically-based means. |
A description of the technology Tony Stark used to build his Iron Man armor in the 1980s.
| Micro-Scale suit tiles fabricated by genetically engineered metal affinity bacteria which assemble themselves in specific orderly arrays, then expire, leaving behind various metallic deposits which form all the metal shapes and microscopic circuits. |
| Technovelgy from The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe,
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