Remember: This will be achieved by creating, then scaling up to a commercial level, revolutionary materials and devices composed of particles or components so tiny that hundreds could fit on the period at the end of this sentence. We already did this. 45, Remember: Sri Lanka Hitman 2 https://www.reddit.com/r/Frontlands/comments/f8x149/remember_this_will_be_achieved_by_creating_then/ Thomas describes his program of soldier nanotechnologies a program supposedly only illustrated, as if from the outside, he puts it in the following words:Our goal is to help greatly enhance the protection and survival of the infantry soldier using nanoscience and nanotechnolgy. The idea is to incorporate these nano materials and nano devices into the future soldier’s uniform, and associated equipage like helmets and gloves, managing the psychological impact upon a foe when encountering squads of seemingly invincible warriors protected by armor and endowed with superhuman capabilities, such as the ability to leap over 20-foot walls. Thomas depicts the development of soldier nanotechnologies as progression from a present “idea” toward a future “goal.” In the process, he locates nano tech within the syntactical structure of printed language, imaginarily packing hundreds of nano scale “components” and “particles” into“the period at the end of this sentence.” It would be possible then to see the ISN as a producer of “substantive” text, engineering its very substance—nanotechnology—within the materiality of writing, as if grammatical sign and technical object were indexical. “The idea” of the whole project to incorporate nano devices into military uniforms is explained through text alone, as a continuous in scriptional inventory that contains the present in itself—a conveyor of present particles—while simultaneously generating the scientific future and setting it off at a distance. We are asked to “imagine”the future of soldier nanotechnologies as a culmination of alphabetic writing, a giving-forth or materialization of the technical substance abiding within. “Imagine the psychological impact”: imagine the invincible powers enabled by those invisible particles at the hypothetical end of this sentence,those particles that are the “end goal” or the “referent” of this sentence as much as they might appear at the space of its final destination, its conclusive period, its full stop. We are directed to think textually, to visualize nano devices through the medium of print and the analog unreeling of its content towards a deferred future.