The strange detail in one painting, which might inspire the creators of nanotechnology

The strange detail in one painting, which might inspire the creators of nanotechnology

I have introduced this painting somewhere else, and as you see it is similar to other "Totentanz" images, and maybe it is painted for the warning, that everybody can be the informant. And the time, when this image has been made was The 30 Years War. When the war was going on, both sides used informants for delivering the information to other side movements. This war was a religious war between the Christian world. And it was a really bloody campaign. And the first time the ordinary people faced the violence of the war.

But there is one detail, what has caused the inspiration for some science fiction writers like Isaac Asimov.  The detail is the nun, who stands at the front of the window, and talks with another skeleton.  

Asimov created the idea for one of his books by using the idea that the entire planet would be covered by the intelligent cells. The Asimov's idea was that the dominating species of the planet was the swarm of the bugs, what would not be intelligent alone. But when the swarm is acting together it will able to get any form, what it wants. Maybe he got the inspiration of that kind of things from this kind of things.

The idea of nanotechnology is the same as the Asimov's species of intelligent bugs. The thing is that the nanotechnology can create big structures and the form of the nanomachines is similar to living cells. They can look like some thready bacteria, and those small size wires would be the hooks, what is keeping the machines or structure in one piece.

Each of those machines would be controlled by the microchip, that knows it's placed in the structure. Microchips are communicating together by using WLAN, which makes possible to separate and reform the structure.

That figure of nun seems to rise from the ground and dust. When we are thinking about the nanotechnology and extremely small machines, those things can make the form of a human. If the system is created by using the machines, which are made by using silicone. The result is something, what seems like a human.  Or everything else, what the system would want that creature to portray.