If you avoided all other threats, the complexity of your own successes would eventually get you.

You and I, we have this little problem: We‘re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding. It‘s something we have to work on.

What happens when dust can compute? Intriguing question - and imaginative story.

Localizers were by their nature a type of computer network, in fact a type of distributed processor. Each little dustmote had a small amount of computing ability—and they communicated with one another.