"Paul Di Filippo - And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon" - читать интересную книгу автора (Di Filippo Paul)

"No! That's not it at all. I'm worried
aboutтАФ"
Cody assumed a motherly look and laid a
hand on mine. "About what, Kaz? C'mon,
you can tell me."
"About blebs. You and I've got so much stuff,
we're bound to have problems when we put
all our possessions together in one space."
Cody sat back and began to laugh. "Is that
all? My god, what a trivial thing to worry
about. Blebs just happen, Kaz, anytime,
anywhere. You can't prevent them. And
they're mostly harmless, as you well know.
You just knock them apart and separate the
components." Cody snorted in what I thought
was a rather rude and unsympathetic fashion.
"Blebs! It's like worrying aboutтАФabout
robber squirrels or vampire pigeons or
running out of SuperMilk."
Blebs were a fact of life. Cody was right about
that. But they weren't always trivial or
innocent.
One had killed my parents.
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Blebs had been around for about twenty years
now, almost as long as I had been alive. Their
roots could be traced back to several decisions
made by manufacturersтАФdecisions which,
separately, were completely intelligent,
foresighted, and well conceived, but which,
synergistically, had caused unintended
consequencesтАФand to one insidious hack.
The first decision had been to implant silicon
RFID chips into every appliance and product
and consumable sold. These first chips, small
as a flake of pepper, were simple transceivers
that merely aided inventory tracking and
retail sales by announcing to any suitable
device the product's specs and location. But
when new generations of chips using adaptive
circuitry had gotten cheaper and more
plentiful, industry had decided to install them
in place of the simpler tags.
At that point millions of common, everyday
objectsтАФyour toothbrush, your coffee maker,
your shoes, the box of cereal on your
shelfтАФbegan to exhibit massive processing
power and interobject communication. Your