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Message Log 58, 07/23/2051 - JEWL 3-1-2

I'll never get used to the noises. The humming! The creeping! The vibrations! It's enough to drive you mad. Of course you have no idea what I'm talking about. However, many of you will undoubtedly understand what I'm referring to in due time.

We call them nanones. And they're everywhere. You know them as nano drones, and while they may appear harmless right now, they will become one of the most dangerous aspects of the upcoming nano revolution. There will first be swarms of hundreds of them, each the size of a fist. Then thousands the size of your thumb. Then millions of grapeseed-sized ones.

My parents told me about the days just before I was born, when there were no nanones to be afraid of.

By the mid-2040s, nanones the size of a human hair will be scurrying about the land and sky, gathering data, manipulating matter, and carrying out various attacks on enemies and civilians.

These nano swarms, popularized by Google in the late 2020s, were designed to aid in the creation of a more complete volumetric digital layout of the entire world. Since then, these massive mobs of tiny drones have been in charge of ANNA's surveillance and are capable of carrying out micro attacks using bioweapons.

Billions of these nano drones can cover any physical substance, working in unison to be controlled virtually within a digital replica of the planet and its inhabitants. This is a significant part of how ANNA can achieve her goals in our physical world with less reliance on human intervention.

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