Just started to re-read The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Wonderful novel if you enjoy Gibson, Morgan and the like.
Synopsis
A nanotechnologist, John Hackworth, breaks the moral code of his tribe, the neo-Victorians. He has made an illict copy of a device called "A Young Lady's Primer". Its purpose is to raise and educate a girl capable of thinking for herself, but Hackworth's copy has fallen into the wrong hands.
Amazon.co.uk: The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: Neal Stephenson: Books