"Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling - Hormiga Canyon" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rucker Rudy)

But thereтАЩs so many loopholes. Like negatively curved space, man, or
higher dimensions. Lots of elbow room in hyperspace! String theory says
there are six extra dimensions of spacetime too small for humans to see.
The Calabi-Yau vermin dimensions.тАЭ

тАЬYou really know some wack stuff, dog,тАЭ said Jayson, vindictively
mashing ants with his thumb. тАЬIf these ants have got their own goddamn
dimensions, all the more reason to rip up this floor and pour gallons of
burning gasoline into their hive.тАЭ

тАЬTheir nest is not under my house,тАЭ insisted Stefan. тАЬThereтАЩs got to
be some modern cyber-method to track ants to their true lair. Like if I could
laser-scan them, or Google-map them. That would rock.тАЭ

тАЬStefan, why did you even call me if you want to talk that kind of crap?
ItтАЩs not like ants have anti-theft labels.тАЭ

тАЬHey, thatтАЩs it!тАЭ exclaimed Stefan. тАЬIтАЩve got smart dust, man. IтАЩve got a
whole bag of smart dust in my bedroom.тАЭ

Jayson grinned loonily and made snorting noises. тАЬSmart dust?
Throw down some lines, dog!тАЭ

тАЬI do not speak of mere drugs,тАЭ said Stefan loftily, тАЬIтАЩm talking RFID!
Radio frequency ID chips. My smart dust comes out of a lab in Berkeley.
You can ping these teensy ID tags with radio, and they give off an ID
number. TheyтАЩre computer chips, but theyтАЩre so much smaller than ants that
theyтАЩre like ant cell phones. Smaller than that, even. Smart dust is like ant
pretzel nuggets.тАЭ

Stefan fetched Jayson a promotional sheet from a heap of
tech-conference swag. The glossy ad showed one single ant towering over
one single chip of smart dust. The chip was a knitted trackwork of logic
circuits, pretty much like any normal computer chip, but the ant standing
over it was an armored Godzilla with eyes like hubcaps and feelers big as
sewer pipes.

тАЬWhoah,тАЭ said Jayson. тАЬIтАЩd love to see an ant that big.тАЭ He drew out
his multitool and kinked at a shiny length of his hobby wire.

Stefan rooted through his tangled electronic gear. тАЬHere it is: just what
we need. WeтАЩll mix this bag of smart dust with your super-attractive ant
repellents, and all the ants will swallow that stuff whole. Luring ants with
high-tech baitтАФthatтАЩs just like when we did our art installations at Burning
Man, back in the day!тАЭ

тАЬYep, those naked hippies were drawn to our tech wizardry like ants to
sugar,тАЭ Jayson concurred. тАЬIтАЩd always get laid right away, but you were
obsessed with keeping the demo running.тАЭ