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Isn’t DNA a type of Von Neumann machine, with human DNA a very successful example?
How might terrorists use ports? How might they be stopped?
What might one do with single-ended ports? Could they represent a technology which should be suppressed?
It begins to ask what we might do with the products of graphene, lonsdaleite and diamond synthesis if we learned how to create them rapidly and in quantity.
Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge the editing and advice of Gail Gilman, Elene Trull, Nora Dahners, Kerry McIntyre, Allen Dietz and Kat Lind, each of whom significantly improved this story.