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  1. I’m unaware of what you’re refering to by “nanites”… but the word is suggestive. Specifically it suggested to me the idea of suggesting to you the book: The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Or, even better, the entire Baroque cycle by Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver, Confusion, and The System of the World. This may all be unnecessary if you have already read his books, but I didn’t notice them on a cursory look at your reading list, so I figur’d I’d suggest it. For someone who likes to read and who delights in flights of linguistic phant’sy, there is no greater gift I can give. Merry Christmas.

  2. Ahh, so I was on target by suggesting The Diamond Age. Anyone here heard of memes? They’re like nanites, but instead of being composed of atoms they are composed of meanings. Little buggers reproduce en masse. For instance, Wikipedia estimates that the total amount of extant, human-recorded meanings runs to about 12 exabytes. That’s 13,835,058,055,282,163,712 bytes. We’re a breeding ground for contagious ideas and behaviors.