Their transmitters are nanotech — diamond lattice structures they call a ‘q-link’ — a tiny mass that they vibrate at high frequency to send gravitati… - Daniel Suarez

I've always been your friend, Alexa. Now go. I will try to kill you as unsuccessfully as I can.

Synthetic biology was the transistor of the twenty-first century. Yet political realities in America made it increasingly unfeasible for entrepreneurs there to tinker with the building blocks of life. Every cluster of human cells was viewed as a baby in America. A quarter of the population wasn’t vaccinated. A majority of Americans didn’t believe in evolution. Social-media-powered opinions carried more influence than peer-reviewed scientific research.

And I tell you that Americans are fucking ignorant about their freedom. They’re about as free as the Chinese. Except the Chinese don’t lie to themselves.