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"I wrote many novels which … contained the element of the projected collective unconscious, which made them simply incomprehensible to anyone who read them, because they required the reader to accept my premise that each of us lives in a unique world."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Orphids | ||
| Nanomachines replicate theselves from dust - and cover the Earth. |
| "Orphids self-reproduce using nothing but dust floating in the air. They’re not destructive. Orphids are territorial; they keep a certain distance from each other. They’ll cover Earth’s surface, yes, but only down to one or two orphids per square millimeter. They’re like little surveyors; they make meshes on things... You'll see a few million of them on your skin, and maybe ten sextillion on Earth's whole surface.."
"Orphids use quantum computing; they propel themselves with electrostatic fields; they understand natural language; and they're networked via quantum entanglement..." |
| Technovelgy from Postsingular,
by Rudy Rucker. Published by Tor Books in 2007 Additional resources -
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