Nanomachines
Nanomachines form a mesh network whose program, Dmitry discovers, keeps the outside dangerous for five hundred years.
Story so far
Microscopic machines in the blood repair cellular damage from freezing and thawing. Outside, invisible machines travel on the wind, destroying human things and returning the world to wilderness. Donald realizes cleanings release more nanos. Thurman says competing destructive and protective machines in Donald’s body will devastate it, while Donald describes having both kinds and explains that outside machines can be pumped into silos to kill their inhabitants.
Donald recalls learning about nanos through an Iranian effort to target an ethnic group. Machines strike people down at an appointed hour; John understands their healing and killing capacities and fears DNA-selective attacks. Tracy likewise explains that microscopic cancer treatments can kill and says the lethal machines are already in everyone’s blood. Dmitry discovers their dynamically unfolding program keeps the outside dangerous for five hundred years. The machines communicate through a mesh network.
Role
Microscopic machines with both protective and destructive functions.
Sources — 15 recorded facts, by chapter
- Microscopic machines in the blood are intended to repair damage from freezing and thawing at the cellular level.
- Invisible machines travel on the winds, destroying human things and returning the world to wilderness.
- Donald realizes that nanos are released into the outside world with every cleaning.
- Thurman explains that destructive and protective machines are fighting inside Donald’s body.
- Thurman says the conflict between machines inside Donald will devastate his body.
- Donald says he has both healing and destructive machines in his blood.
- Donald explains that the machines outside the silos are pumped inside to destroy people.
- Donald recalls first learning about nanos through an Iranian effort to target an ethnic group.
- Microscopic machines strike down people at an appointed hour.
- John understands the tiny machines to be capable of both healing and killing.
- John fears that microscopic machines could be programmed to kill people selected by DNA.
- Tracy explains that microscopic cancer treatments can also kill.
- Tracy says the lethal machines are present in every human being’s blood.
- Dmitry discovers a dynamically unfolding program that keeps the outside dangerous for five hundred years.
- The machines communicate through a mesh network.