OTEC (c)
by D A Wootan danw@pobox.com
Mankind is on a runaway technological bobsled ride.
Nanotechnology will, one day soon, deliver godlike
powers into unprepared human hands.
One of those unprepared humans, may very well order:
"Give me a Lazarus virus."
"A virus that will make everyone twenty five years old,
in perfect health and immortal."
"The virus should act as a racial autoimmune system,
like an anti virus computer database,
no disease, no aging, no excess body fat."
"And what of excess population at my Lord?"
"Make everyone sterile!"
"And what of the vast data networking requirements
for this distributed organism to maintain its coherency,
my Lord?"
"Use human semen, code the necessary information
using protein, vast amounts of data can be transferred."
"And of the network itself, my Lord?"
"Tell them all, have unsafe sex.
Unsafe sex three times a week with strangers.
If they use a condom, they will grow old and die
within the year!"
"Yes, my Lord, it will be, as you wish."
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OTEC (c) is a story of people trying to get on with their
lives in a world deliberately infected with the Lazarus virus.