The disturbing thing about ant technology is it's all ants.
The fridge? It's an ant.
Your tank? It's an ant.
Your boat? It's you, and other ants.
Your house? The walls are ants.
Your weed control for your garden? Tiny ants?
Your glue gun? It's an ant (a baby ant!)
So advanced high tech ants would have ant guns, and ant spaceships. Advanced ants would have ant computers for ants, made of ants. Advanced ants would have ants for storing data.
@futurebird when I was a child, one of my favorite novels where the Harry Harrison series that begins with West of Eden. In that novel, the Yilane do everyhing with genetically modified organisms; ocean craft are genetically modified ichthyosaurs, conversations are recorded by genetically modified frogs, cities are housed in giant genetically modified trees, and so on. It would be wonderful to re-envision this with ants.
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AntOS, an operating system programmed in ants for ant architecture CPUs, specializing in ant database management (ants computing on ants with ants to produce ants)
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Ant researchers trying furiously to recombine ants to novel applications, decanting beakers of ants into other ants and accelerating ants at tremendous speeds to discover the constituent ants that make up ants
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