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Description
NanoBot Dragon One
Artifical Nanoscopic Robotic Organism
Medical series: Human Auto immune system enhancement.
Sterile (non-replecating) For single use only (do not attempt to re-target organism)
Absolute life span 46 hours. Patent must be kept under strict observation for duration of treatment.

Clarke's third law states: 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic'
Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - )

This law of Sci Fi became well known after Clarks rise to fame following the success of 2001, and it was probably one of the most influential ideas behind the blending of high fantacy with 'hard' science fiction in the 1970s and beyond. It became common practice to gloss over the plausability of futuistic technolgy because Clark's law gave everyone a licence to say 'its beyond contemporary (Human) understanding'. Cultural relativism is taken for granted today, but in the 'serious' SF world up to the 1950's it was unthinkable. The whole idea of SF was to explore the possibilties hinted at by real scientific research.

So yes... under Clarks law you can have 'real' dragons. But Jurasic Park demonstrated like no other film, why it was not a good idea to do something like that just because we can.

So I put the question: If entertainment was not a good enough reason to bring 'dragons' to life, what would be? Why would you create something so terrible and dangerious? The answer to me is medicine.

Create a dragon on 'our side'; a dragon capable of hunting down and destroying cancer cells within a living human; a dragon too small to get out of hand.

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A published work is beyond the control of an artist and I think it is stupid to try. People are free to interpret this image as they please, and there is nothing the artist or anyone else can do to stop this from happening.
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BTW turn the sucker 'tail up', and check out the movement! Wow!

I regard this image as still in progress.

Description
NanoBot Dragon One
Artifical Nanoscopic Robotic Organism
Medical series: Human Auto immune system enhancement.
Sterile (non-replecating) For single use only (do not attempt to re-target organism)
Absolute life span 46 hours. Patent must be kept under strict observation for duration of treatment.

Clarke's third law states: 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic'
Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - )

This law of Sci Fi became well known after Clarks rise to fame following the success of 2001, and it was probably one of the most influential ideas behind the blending of high fantacy with 'hard' science fiction in the 1970s and beyond. It became common practice to gloss over the plausability of futuistic technolgy because Clark's law gave everyone a licence to say 'its beyond contemporary (Human) understanding'. Cultural relativism is taken for granted today, but in the 'serious' SF world up to the 1950's it was unthinkable. The whole idea of SF was to explore the possibilties hinted at by real scientific research.

So yes... under Clarks law you can have 'real' dragons. But Jurasic Park demonstrated like no other film, why it was not a good idea to do something like that just because we can.

So I put the question: If entertainment was not a good enough reason to bring 'dragons' to life, what would be? Why would you create something so terrible and dangerious? The answer to me is medicine.

Create a dragon on 'our side'; a dragon capable of hunting down and destroying cancer cells within a living human; a dragon too small to get out of hand.

**************************************** **************************************** *
A published work is beyond the control of an artist and I think it is stupid to try. People are free to interpret this image as they please, and there is nothing the artist or anyone else can do to stop this from happening.
**************************************** **************************************** *
BTW turn the sucker 'tail up', and check out the movement! Wow!

I regard this image as still in progress.