The adjective tenril joined the English language through a genius with the same name. It means something that changes how humans live their lives. The printing press, the practical use of electricity, the radio, telephone, TV, and the Internet are examples of tenril level changes. Finally, the practical use of nanites was perhaps the most tenril event in history. Specifically, nanites were the most significant tenril event because it was so personal, something that affected our bodies directly.
Antonio Michael Tenril was perhaps one of the smartest men that ever lived. First, he managed to use quantum physics to generate power for the nanites somehow using temperature differentials. A handful of people claim to understand the theory behind the technology. Even those making the claim, struggle to explain it to others, leading most to believe that they do not really understand it at all.

Powered nano-sized machines were a technological breakthrough but not a tenril breakthrough in the modern sense of the word. The tenril breakthrough came as a result of three additional advances made by the outlier genius.

First, he gave his nanites the ability to replicate themselves. Despite fears from the general public, nanites were limited in their growth to the availability of the specific combination of minerals. He created a type of operating system for the replicated nano machines which led to the next breakthrough.

He created a method that allowed his nano machines to communicate with each other. Specifically extremely simple directions could be sent to the most basic of units. Antonio then designed a configuration of multiple nanites. The group of nanites could communicate over a standard wifi connection and also to the individual nanite units. This meant that a computer or smart phone could communicate with the nanites.

From there it was a simple matter of causing the nanites to move themselves to where they were needed, so locomotion was the final breakthrough which caused the tenril event.

Antonio knew what he was doing from the start with his nanites and he immediately injected himself with his own inventions. Then he injected himself with the building block materials. He expectation that the nanites would replicate. They worked exactly as he hoped.

He patented his inventions and then revealed to the world what he had created. He had cured his own pancreatic cancer with his creations. Perhaps more astounding than curing cancer, and certainly more significant to the common man, he also cured the common cold. Any microbe could be disrupted within the human body including the specter of AIDS.

Predictably, winning the war over microbes changed how we lived and continued to live. We lived longer and had greater control of our own health. A Smartphone app interacted with the nanites in one’s body. Doctors became must less ubiquitous. Nanite technology continued to improve and there was little damage to a body that they could not repair.

Culturally, finding the cure for disease had a predictable and very primal effect. Free love exploded beyond the even bounds of the 1960’s. Specifically, having sex with anyone could no longer be traced. There was no evidence, not even pregnancy as destroying something as large as a fertilized ovum was trivial for the nanites. Fat cells were equally trivial.

At first the newest sexually revolution happened somewhat quietly and surprisingly slowly. People simply did not believe in the technology, they were waiting for the other shoe to drop. But it never did. Approximately six months after the technology became commercially available culture embraced its new freedom.

Strange changes in culture began to occur. Nudity suddenly became much more accepted throughout the world. In places where it was illegal it was simply no longer enforced. Given that nudity was socially acceptable it only a matter of time until public sexual activity became culturally accepted. Most people still appreciated their privacy but those who did not weren’t arrested or particularly bothered.