In Rudy Rucker's Postsingular, nanotechnology has taken over the world. It seems interesting that in addition to the "real" world there is a "virtual" orphid net world, and a person can choose which one to be in at a given time. The dilema that seems to come up is whether people will still want to function in the "real" world at all, when they could be much smarter and connected through the orphid net. It's like cell phones. Most of us have them, and few of us that do choose to not use them. They are constantly on or near us. Additction? In postsingular people become addicted to the orphid net, or the big pig. Straight up addicted to technology. What is it with humans wanting to be smarter, greater, more powerful. I guess there is the condition that many of us think we are the shit. Humans are the top of the food chain, eh? The smartest, strongest. Right? Well, if we keep fucking with the natural world perhaps Mother Nature will show us whose really boss? I wonder if, in Postsingular, some such thing will happen. When, if even, will "Gaia" resist? I do like that some of the postsingular characters refer to Earth as the godess. i think she is.