Blood Music

Greg Bear's classic 1983 science fiction novelette about noocytes.

A review: http://explorers.whyte.com/bmu.htm.

A talk at the Modern Language Association 2000 convention by Eugene Thacker, starting with excerpts from the novelette and ending with nanotech, nanomedicine and "posthuman bodies": http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/200012/msg00152.html.