Tiny Intruders

An autonomous agent swims through your body, finding its target: one of your cells.

That’s right: this little nano-machine resides inside of your body, doing its work to rearrange your DNA.

Don’t worry, though. This previously programmed entity isn’t exactly like today’s self-driving cars or even early ancient Greek automata. It’s certainly far from passing the Turing test.

This “machine” is ten times smaller than a bacteria cell that lives inside your body, and your cells are ten times bigger than a bacterium.

In spite of being tiny and not particularly intelligent, our little machine has a superpower: there are trillions of identical copies of our little machine inside you, right now.

This isn’t really a machine as such, though. These aren’t really tiny robots that live inside you.