# Everyone Loves Spider-Man but Nobody Trusts the Laboratory ![[resources/images/mind-master-comic-labratory-bci-genetic.png]] **Notes on the Internet of Bodies, the mRNA Instruction Layer, and Who Is Allowed to Rewrite a Human Being.** I have spent a long time arguing that the frightening description and the desirable description are frequently the same description read at different temperatures. Nowhere is that more true than in the current panic over graphene nano-antennas, terahertz nanonetworks, and the so-called Internet of Bodies. The people raising the alarm are not hallucinating. They have detected a real gradient in the technical literature and correctly inferred that it leads somewhere consequential. Their error is not factual. It is architectural, and it is an error of scale in the wrong direction: **they imagine a completed system concealed from view, when the actual research program is larger, further along, more strange, and entirely announced.** The fear is not too radical. It is too small. A post circulated recently warning that graphene-based nanomaterials act as plasmonic nano-antennas, that terahertz waves at the core of 6G allow those structures to harvest energy and transmit data from inside the body, that this constitutes the Internet of Bio-Nano Things, and that cells thereby become network nodes capable of being read, written, and shut down wirelessly. The post cited patents. It cited IEEE papers. It cited a university press release. It ended with an instruction to read the sources rather than take anyone's word for it, which is more intellectual generosity than most public argument currently offers. I want to take that instruction seriously, because when you actually read the sources, the situation is considerably more interesting than either the person raising the alarm or the person dismissing them is prepared to say. ## The Concession Begin by granting almost everything, because almost everything in the technical layer is granted already by the people who built it. Graphene's electron mobility and plasmonic behavior do make it an unusually good material for nanoscale antennas resonating in the terahertz regime, and this was established in the communications-engineering literature more than a decade ago as the physical basis for nanonetworking. The Internet of Bio-Nano Things is not a phrase invented by anyone frightened of it; it is the title of a 2015 paper in _IEEE Communications Magazine_ by Akyildiz, Pierobon, Balasubramaniam and Koucheryavy, which proposed a networking paradigm composed of biological and nanoscale entities and specified a **bio-cyber interface** to translate between biochemical signaling and conventional electronic networks. That architecture diagram is public, indexed, and has been cited into the thousands. Subsequent work has developed molecular antennas, biological field-effect transistor interfaces, intra-body channel models, energy harvesting, and machine-learning coordination of nanosensor clusters. The neural side is stronger still. DARPA's Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology program was created explicitly to pursue bidirectional brain-machine communication without surgery, and among its funded approaches was one pairing an external electromagnetic transceiver with **nanotransducers delivered nonsurgically into selected neurons**, converting neuronal electrical activity into externally detectable magnetic signal and performing the inverse conversion to write back. That is not an interpretation of DARPA's intent. It is DARPA's public description of the solicitation. A 2025 _Nature Biotechnology_ paper went further in a different direction, describing immune-cell and electronics hybrids introduced intravenously that exploit native cellular trafficking to reach inflamed brain tissue, where the electronic components effectively install themselves. A 2025 _Science Advances_ paper reported wireless deep-brain stimulation using nanoparticles and a photothermal mechanism, decomposing neuromodulation into a responsive material inside the organism plus an externally supplied field. And the delivery question — the one that supposedly requires a conspiracy to answer — has a published clinical answer. **Lipid nanoparticle-delivered mRNA is currently the preferred vehicle for genome editing inside living human beings.** Intellia's NTLA-2001 delivered a CRISPR-Cas9 system as mRNA to hepatocytes in patients with transthyretin amyloidosis and produced durable reduction in a disease-causing protein. Verve's program delivers a base editor by the same route to permanently modify cholesterol regulation. These are not thought experiments. They are trials with named investigators, published results, and regulatory files. Every element in the frightened person's diagram exists. What does not exist is the diagram. And there is one further irony worth extracting before moving on, because it demonstrates the whole thesis in miniature. **The alarm selected the wrong carrier.** Terahertz radiation attenuates catastrophically in hydrated tissue — water absorbs it within a fraction of a millimeter — which makes it excellent for skin-surface spectroscopy, security imaging, and short-range links between adjacent nanoscale devices, and physically incapable of interrogating anything deep inside a living body. A 6G terahertz body network reading your brain is not a suppressed capability; it is a violation of absorption physics. The modalities that actually penetrate are **ultrasound**, which travels centimeters through tissue with usable resolution, and **magnetic fields**, which pass through bone as though it were not present. This is exactly why DARPA's nonsurgical program pursued acoustics and magnetics rather than radio. The genuinely capable carrier sits in every obstetric clinic on earth and attracts no alarm at all, while the alarm attaches itself to the one band that cannot do the job. The fear is not only too small. It is pointed at the wrong physics. ## Spider-Sense Is Telemetry There is a peculiar asymmetry in how our culture metabolizes this. The single most beloved origin story of the last century involves a young man bitten by a spider carrying foreign genetic material, whose physiology is comprehensively rewritten, and who emerges with augmented strength, enhanced perception, and an entirely novel sensory modality functioning as a distributed early-warning system for threats his conscious mind has not yet registered. This is somatic reprogramming by an injected biological vector producing a networked proprioceptive upgrade, and roughly nobody objects. Captain America is a pharmacological human-enhancement program administered by the United States Army. Wolverine is a materials-science implant procedure. The X-Men are a population undergoing rapid non-consensual germline divergence. We have been rehearsing this scenario for eighty years and calling it heroism. The objection, then, is not to modification. It is to **authorship**. And notice where the spider came from. It was not wild nature intruding on an unlucky teenager; in the canonical telling it was an irradiated or deliberately engineered specimen at a science demonstration — **an experiment that got loose**. The creature that rewrote Peter Parker's genome was itself a laboratory product of an unaccountable corporate research program with no containment discipline and no informed consent anywhere in the chain, and audiences have adored the outcome for sixty years without once calling it institutional overreach. Peter Parker consented to nothing whatsoever, but no institution appears in the moral frame, and so the transformation registers as fate rather than policy. The instant an agency, a manufacturer, a health ministry, or a platform enters the picture, the identical biological event reclassifies from destiny to intrusion. That instinct is not stupid. It is, in fact, the correct instinct pointed at the wrong object, and understanding why is the entire ethical content of what follows. The relevant question was never whether human biology gets rewritten. It gets rewritten constantly, by pathogens, by pharmaceuticals, by nutrition, by radiation, by every antibiotic course and every vaccine and every meal. The relevant question is **who holds write access, under what constraint, and whether it can be revoked.** ## The Actual Stack Here is where I want to correct my own earlier shorthand, because I have described mRNA as middleware and the metaphor is imprecise in a way that costs the argument power. **mRNA is not middleware. It is an instruction format.** The lipid nanoparticle is the loader. The ribosome is the runtime. The cell is the host. The transcript is bytecode with a deliberately short time-to-live. Middleware would be the layer sitting between the instruction and the network — and that layer is exactly the thing that does not yet exist, which is what makes this the interesting frontier rather than a completed plot. Naming the stack correctly converts a rhetorical gesture into an engineering diagram, and an engineering diagram lets you say with precision which components have shipped, which are in trials, and which remain unsolved. What has shipped is the write path, and it operates across **three tiers distinguished by persistence**. At the top sits transient proteomic modulation: introduce a transcript, get a protein for hours or days, watch it degrade. In the middle sits epigenetic reprogramming — catalytically dead Cas fused to methyltransferase or demethylase effectors, delivered as mRNA, producing durable but erasable modification of gene expression without cutting anything. At the base sits genomic editing itself, permanent and uniterable. The tier is selected by how long the change should last, exactly as a systems administrator distinguishes runtime configuration from persistent state from firmware. This is why "real-time genetic optimization" is a claim worth sharpening rather than abandoning. mRNA does not modify the genome; it modifies the expression layer, and **that is the superior capability, not the lesser one**. Genomic edits are permanent, which means they are unrepeatable and unforgiving — one attempt, and an error becomes a lifelong condition. Transcript-level intervention is dosed, titratable, reversible, and iterable on a timescale of hours. Optimization requires iteration. A permanent edit cannot be optimized; it can only be committed. The layer that can actually support continuous adjustment against feedback is the expression layer, and that is precisely the layer mRNA addresses. Which brings us to the most underappreciated fact in this entire domain. **Transience is a feature, not a limitation — but only for some purposes, and knowing which is the whole game.** In vivo editing works precisely because the editor is present long enough to act and then disappears; persistent expression of a nuclease is a liability rather than an achievement. An interface that decays unless deliberately renewed is structurally different from one that persists by default. But a durable interface wants the opposite, and this is where the honest version of the argument gets harder rather than easier. If a neuron must express an acoustic transducer for years, the delivery vehicle is more likely a viral vector than a lipid nanoparticle, because messenger RNA degrades within days and nobody intends to redose their own brain weekly. **Persistent expression is not readily revocable**, which means reversibility cannot be inherited from the chemistry. It has to be engineered deliberately — regulatable promoters, small-molecule-inducible expression, degron tags that destroy the transducer protein on command, self-inactivating constructs with defined expression windows. The revocability argument survives, but only as a design requirement rather than a happy accident of molecular biology. Anyone who tells you the technology is inherently reversible is describing the therapeutic tier and quietly extrapolating it to the interface tier, where it does not hold. ## The Missing Channel Everything described above is a write channel. Telemetry — the thing that would actually constitute an Internet of Bodies — requires the inverse, and the inverse is not solved. The obstacle has never been sensing. Synthetic biology has possessed intracellular sensors for years in the form of riboswitches, toehold switches, aptamer-gated constructs, and synthetic receptor architectures that condition downstream expression on a specified molecular state. What has been missing is an **output modality that survives tissue depth**. Optical reporters die in centimeters of flesh. Radio requires a transmitter the cell cannot build. Acoustic reporter genes changed the shape of that problem. Gas vesicles — genetically encodable, gas-filled protein nanostructures on the order of tens to hundreds of nanometers, borrowed from buoyancy machinery in aquatic microbes — scatter ultrasound nonlinearly and can be expressed by mammalian cells as ordinary gene products. A cell can therefore be instructed to manufacture its own ultrasound contrast. Magnetic resonance reporters based on aquaporin or ferritin supply a slower parallel path. Compose a sensor with a reporter and the primitive appears: **a transcript that renders a cell acoustically visible only when a specified intracellular condition holds.** That is the readback channel, in prototype. And notice what it is not. It is not a continuous broadcast of everything the cell knows. It is a cell that answers one question, when asked, and only that question — an architecture that is narrow by construction rather than by policy. Even routing exists in unglamorous form: microRNA target sites placed in the untranslated region suppress translation in cell types you do not want expressing, which is address filtering implemented directly in sequence. Assemble these and the closed loop becomes describable in engineering terms. Systemic administration distributes conditional sensor-reporter constructs. Tissue tropism determines which cells install them. An external acoustic or magnetic field interrogates the population. An inference layer reconstructs organism-level state from sparse and noisy returns. Therapeutic response descends the write stack at whichever tier the required persistence demands. The honest remaining problems are four, and naming them is what separates this from breathless futurism. ## Sonogenetics Is Funded. Magnetogenetics Is Not Settled. If the preceding section reads as speculation, it is worth noting what happened while people were arguing about vaccine ingredients. **Merge Labs emerged from stealth with roughly a quarter of a billion dollars in seed funding**, cofounded by Sam Altman, with OpenAI participating as both investor and research collaborator, to build brain interfaces that connect with neurons using molecules rather than electrodes and transmit through deep-reaching modalities like ultrasound. It is a spinout of the nonprofit Forest Neurotech, which has been running an early-stage safety trial of a miniaturized ultrasound device. Its stated field is **sonogenetics** — genetically modifying cells so that they respond to ultrasound — and its reported direction combines ultrasound with gene therapy to pursue whole-brain access. The detail that matters most is who is anchoring the science: **Mikhail Shapiro**, whose laboratory developed the acoustic reporter genes described above. The readback channel I have just called the missing layer of the stack is not a gap awaiting a founder. It is the explicit technical premise of a well-capitalized company led by the person who invented the primitive. Note also the pincer: INSIGHTEC, after a decade of high-intensity focused ultrasound in functional neurosurgery, spun out Lotus Neuro to pursue the low-intensity regime for blood-brain barrier opening and drug delivery — approaching the same acoustic band from the therapeutic direction while Merge approaches it from the interface direction. Transport and telemetry are converging on one modality from opposite ends. Understand what sonogenetics actually requires, because it disposes of the ambient-exposure fear entirely. **Ultrasound does nothing useful to an unmodified neuron at safe intensities.** The cell must express a specific transducer — a mechanosensitive ion channel engineered from candidates like TRP-4, hsTRPA1, or bacterial MscL on the actuation side, or a gas-vesicle construct on the readout side — that converts acoustic energy into a defined cellular event. The receptivity is never general. It is one protein responding to one stimulus in one way, which is simultaneously the engineering achievement and the safety property. Nobody becomes acoustically addressable by breathing something or standing near a tower. Nothing is expressed unless an instruction reaches a cell and is transcribed there. And notice the staging, because it is the adoption curve in miniature. Forest's device in trial reads **hemodynamics** — functional ultrasound detecting the blood-flow changes that accompany regional neural activity — which requires no genetic modification whatsoever. That is stage one: a purely external reader, establishing safety, clinical benefit, and public familiarity while asking nothing of anyone's genome. The molecular layer arrives afterward, to purchase bandwidth and direct neural coupling that hemodynamics cannot supply. **Nobody is asked to modify anything until after they already want the thing.** Its sibling technology deserves a colder assessment, and giving it one is what earns the rest of this essay a hearing. **Magnetogenetics is not settled.** In 2016 Markus Meister published an analysis in _eLife_ arguing that the prominent ferritin-tethered ion channel results conflicted with elementary physics by five to ten orders of magnitude, and that the paramagnetic character of protein complexes fundamentally limits their usefulness for building magnetically sensitive cells. That critique has largely stood, and reproducibility problems followed it. What is interesting is how the field survived: subsequent work indicates that ferritin converts radiofrequency magnetic fields into **biochemical** signals — reactive oxygen species and oxidized lipids — rather than into mechanical torque, and a 2024 _Journal of Neuroscience_ study resolved the electromagnetic interference that had blocked direct measurement and obtained electrophysiological evidence of radiofrequency-induced activation in ferritin-coupled channels. The effect appears real; the proposed mechanism was wrong. Meister himself indicated the repair: a particle carrying a **permanent** magnetic moment, such as the magnetosomes that bacteria already manufacture, could produce forces and torques of a usable magnitude. Stop using paramagnetic ferritin and instruct cells to build something bacteria have been building for a billion years. That is what an honest map looks like. One modality funded, staffed, and moving toward trials; an adjacent one mechanistically unresolved with a known physical route to a fix. Anyone who flattens those two into a single confident claim is not doing you a favor, in either direction. **Tropism** beyond the liver, because the vasculature and the reticuloendothelial system currently decide where nanoparticles go and they have strong opinions. **Redosing**, because anti-PEG and anti-carrier immunity accumulate and a system requiring periodic renewal must survive its own repetition. **Signal-to-noise at depth**, because the inverse problem gets brutal past a few centimeters of heterogeneous tissue. And **the inference layer**, because reconstructing systemic physiological state from a handful of acoustic returns is a genuinely hard estimation problem that will be solved, if it is solved, by machine learning rather than by better transducers. Those four are the papers to watch. All four are being worked, openly, by people who publish. ## What Changes When The Loop Closes For the entire history of medicine, the organism has been mostly opaque and interrogated episodically. Disease produced symptoms, symptoms motivated examination, examination produced measurements, measurements eventually triggered intervention. Every stage of that sequence occurs after the fact. The lag between the onset of pathology and the recognition of pathology is where nearly all preventable human suffering lives. Continuous intra-body sensing coupled to addressable actuation inverts that temporal structure. Medicine becomes **persistent state estimation with therapeutic write access** — a control system rather than a diagnostic ritual. This is what the phrase "medicine becoming informational" means when stated in engineering rather than devotional terms. Cancer stops waiting until a mass is palpable. Epileptiform activity stops waiting until the seizure generalizes. Metabolic dysregulation stops waiting for collapse. Inflammation, arrhythmia, infection, neurodegeneration and pharmacological toxicity become trajectories recognized upstream, where intervention is cheap and reversible, rather than events recognized downstream, where it is neither. And a distributed architecture for sensing, inference, communication and actuation is not a metaphor for a nervous system. It is the functional definition of one. When I describe a **planetary nervous system for care**, the phrase stops being poetry at exactly the point where the loop closes: innumerable local sensors, edge interpretation inside or adjacent to the organism, selective escalation to external intelligence, population-scale learning, predictive models, and therapeutic output returning to the individual. Crucially, the technically superior version of this is distributed rather than centralized — local inference, federated learning, cryptographically constrained disclosure, individualized physiological models, and highly selective transmission of medically relevant state changes. Streaming everyone's raw biology into one repository is not merely objectionable; it is bad engineering, wasteful of bandwidth and fragile at the center. ## Why Adoption Will Be Ferocious The moral panic literature consistently mispredicts adoption because it models human beings as guardians of biological purity rather than as organisms with unmet appetites and a demonstrated willingness to trade interiority for capability. People surrendered continuous location telemetry for restaurant recommendations. They surrendered the contents of their correspondence for free storage. The proposition on offer here is not convenience. It is memory, cognition, language, perception, emotional regulation, sexual experience, restored function in a failing body, and access to constructed environments whose experiential richness may eventually exceed ordinary physical reality. When a direct neural interface becomes something acquired through an injection, an account, and a subscription, most of the moral panic will evaporate within a single product cycle. The technology will not be sold as submission to a network. It will be sold as **freedom from limitation** — restore a damaged nervous system, prevent dementia, regulate depression, acquire a language in weeks, retain what is worth retaining, work alongside machine intelligence as though it were an additional cognitive faculty. And the vocabulary will migrate on schedule, as it always does. What was called implantation becomes onboarding. What was called neural surveillance becomes cognitive telemetry. What was called bio-nano networking becomes continuous medicine. What was called a machine in the brain becomes an extension of self. What was called escaping reality becomes choosing among realities. Give people a safe neural connection that makes them healthier, smarter, more capable, more connected and more imaginative, and they will not merely accept it. **They will regard those without it as technologically impoverished.** The Internet of Humans may not arrive because anyone forces civilization into it. It may arrive because the benefits become so extraordinary that civilization sprints toward it, and the remaining objectors find themselves in the position of arguing against literacy. ## The Only Question That Matters Connectivity is not the dividing line. Nobody has ever successfully objected to being legible; we submit to imaging, bloodwork, and continuous glucose monitoring without protest because legibility in service of the person being read is simply care. The line falls elsewhere, and it falls precisely where the Spider-Man asymmetry pointed all along. The question is **write access**. Who can issue instructions to the organism. Whether therapeutic authority is cryptographically bounded and to whom. Whether inference occurs locally rather than exporting intimate state. Whether the biological telemetry belongs irreducibly to the individual generating it. Whether an employer, insurer, platform, government or artificial intelligence can ever hold a channel into a human nervous system that the human cannot close. Whether the interface degrades by default, requiring affirmative renewal, or persists by default, requiring affirmative removal. Stated that way, these are not disclaimers appended to a technology after the fact. They are **design specifications**, and they determine which of two categorically different objects gets built from identical components. Get them right and the feared Internet of Bodies becomes an exocortex of medicine and a distributed autonomic layer for civilization, extending the organism's ancient capacity for sensing and repair through machine intelligence. Get them wrong and you have built a peripheral out of a person. So the most defensible version of this argument turns out to be far more radical than the one that frightened people are making. The interesting claim was never that someone completed the architecture out of view. It is that **researchers are openly building every component from which such an architecture could be assembled, publishing as they go, and the assembly is a decision humanity has not yet consciously made.** The scientifically consequential question is not what was done to us yesterday. It is what we choose to construct tomorrow, and whether we possess enough imagination to build it primarily as an infrastructure of continuity, restoration, augmentation and care rather than extraction and command. Read the sources yourself. That part of the advice was always correct. So: why not modify your own DNA, at whichever tier of persistence the situation actually warrants. Why not instruct your cells to answer a question when it is put to them in ultrasound. Why not decline to die on the schedule your species inherited from organisms that had no say in the matter. Why not merge with the machine. Why not open a channel between your nervous system and every intelligence humanity has managed to build. **Why not.** The burden has quietly changed hands. That question is now answerable, and the answers are specific: because tropism is unsolved, because redosing provokes immunity, because the inverse problem at depth is hard, because nobody has yet built a write channel that the person being written to can reliably close. Those are real objections and they are the reason the work is not finished. But notice that not one of them is an objection to the project. They are the project. Everything else on offer — that it is unnatural, that it is hubris, that biology should be left as we found it — is not an answer to the question. It is a refusal to be in the room where the question is asked. Everyone loves Spider-Man. Nobody protested the spider — and the spider came out of a laboratory. The only thing that ever changed was that somebody put a name on the door. --- [Bryant McGill](https://bryantmcgill.com/about/) is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best-Selling Author, founder of Simple Reminders, and architect of the Polyphonic Cognitive Ecosystem. A Congressionally Recognized Ambassador of Goodwill and United Nations appointed Global Champion, his work spans naval intelligence systems, computational linguistics, and civilizational governance architecture. --- ## References and Further Reading **Foundational Nanonetworking and IoBNT** 1. Akyildiz, Pierobon, Balasubramaniam & Koucheryavy, [The Internet of Bio-Nano Things](https://ianakyildiz.com/bwn/papers/2015/j3.pdf), _IEEE Communications Magazine_, 2015. 2. Jornet & Akyildiz, [Graphene-based Plasmonic Nano-Antenna for Terahertz Band Communication in Nanonetworks](https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2013.SUP2.1213001), _IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications_, 2013. 3. [Next-generation Wireless Technology May Leverage the Human Body for Energy](https://www.umass.edu/news/article/next-generation-wireless-technology-may-leverage-human-body-energy), University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2023. **Neural Interfaces and Nonsurgical Access** 4. DARPA, [Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3)](https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/next-generation-nonsurgical-neurotechnology). 5. DARPA, [Six Paths to the Nonsurgical Future of Brain-Machine Interfaces](https://www.darpa.mil/news/2019/nonsurgical-brain-machine-interfaces), 2019. 6. [A nonsurgical brain implant enabled through a cell-based delivery mechanism](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02809-3), _Nature Biotechnology_, 2025. 7. [A nanoparticle-based wireless deep brain stimulation system](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado4927), _Science Advances_, 2025. 8. [Bio-inspired electronics: Soft, biohybrid, and "living" neural interfaces](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-57016-0), _Nature Communications_, 2025. **The mRNA Write Path** 9. Gillmore et al., [CRISPR-Cas9 In Vivo Gene Editing for Transthyretin Amyloidosis](https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2107454), _New England Journal of Medicine_, 2021. 10. [Device-assisted strategies for drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier](https://www.nature.com/articles/s43246-024-00721-y), _Communications Materials_, 2024. 11. [Allosteric targeted drug delivery for enhanced blood-brain barrier penetration](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58746-x), _Nature Communications_, 2025. **The Readback Channel** 12. Bourdeau et al., [Acoustic reporter genes for noninvasive imaging of microorganisms in mammalian hosts](https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25021), _Nature_, 2018. **Sonogenetics and Magnetogenetics** 13. [OpenAI Backs Ultrasound-Based Brain-Computer Interface Startup With $252M Seed Round](https://www.biopharmatrend.com/news/openai-backs-ultrasound-based-brain-computer-interface-startup-with-252m-seed-round-1470/), BioPharmaTrend, 2026. 14. [Inside Merge Labs: BCI's Biggest New Competitor](https://www.neurofounders.co/articles/inside-merge-labs-bcis-biggest-new-competitor), Neurofounders, 2026. 15. Meister, [Physical limits to magnetogenetics](https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.17210), _eLife_, 2016. 16. [Electrophysiological Mechanisms and Validation of Ferritin-Based Magnetogenetics for Remote Control of Neurons](https://www.jneurosci.org/content/44/30/e1717232024), _Journal of Neuroscience_, 2024. 17. [Magnetic fields for modulating the nervous system](https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/magnetic-fields-for-modulating-the-nervous-system), _Physics Today_, 2025. **Related Work by the Author** 18. 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