>Jason, what's the "Gentle Suduction"?
>Gina "nanogirl" Miller
>http://www.nanoindustries.com
>echoz@hotmail.com
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"The Gentle Seduction"
It's a short story from 1989 written by Marc Stiegler.
It has been published several times. However, you can find it in a short story collection by the same name.
isbn: 0-671-69887-7 from Baen books
Not as flashy a universe as some of the others, but not a future I would be at all sorry to find myself in.