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The second volume in the New York Times best-selling Silo series.
Hugh Howey goes back to show the first days of the Silo, and the
beginning of the end
In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the
hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller
than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even
self-propagate.
In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects
of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had
been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event.
At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind
discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the
ability to forget it ever happened.