General-purpose hardware that can run software which its creators never thought of is what really makes the smartphone transformative.

How can you take that principle and apply it to a different technology for story purposes?

For example, my novella Gu (http://csidemedia.com/gu) is an extended metaphor of the internet by way of programmable matter.

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