Nanotechnology, or molecular engineering, is a hypothetical productive system based on the precise arrangement of atoms into molecular level devices and macroscale structures. As a response to the current environmental predicament it appears to engage with both long-term, cumulative damage and non-linear runaway accidents. As a complex adaptive system with capacities for self-replication and self-transformation, nanotech has the potential to engage with runaway events on their own terrain, thereby constituting a response to catastrophe which runs the risk of becoming as ecologically tumultuous as the catastrophe itself.
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Nigel Clark (1998) studied this question.
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