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"The idea I want to push next is that the United States should make Siberia a Protectorate. Pay the Russians off – a hundred, two hundred billion dollars – and simply run Siberia in an ecologically responsible way."
- Gregory Benford
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| Ballisticules | ||
| Nanotechnology devices that throw their weight around. |
See cookie-cutters for a complete entry. The name "ballisticule" is kind of interesting; the first part of the word refers to projectile motion, and the last part means small.
| From The Diamond Age,
by Neal Stephenson. Published by Bantam Books in 1995 Additional resources -
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