The Great Prostate Mistake

They all disappeared early one morning.

"We told you this would happen," said the conservatives, the nanoskeptics, the simple lifers, the religious leaders, the antisingularitarians, and the independent scientific advisory boards.

The glitch was fixed in the next nanosync, but for that week, there was a look in everyone's faces that would be immortalized in media coverage as emblematic of the age - bemused and uncomfortable, like teenagers trying on clothes from the previous summer and finding they no longer fit.