From Stephen Rix
Bulli, NSW
In regard to the article “There’s an ant in my phone”
(24 January, p 32), you
may be interested to know that the Unseen University in Terry Pratchett’s
Discworld novels has a computer, called Hex and invented by one Ponder Stibbons,
which uses ants as carriers of information. A number of books written by
Pratchett have developed the idea to a highly sophisticated level.
