One wrong note...

Reading Alastair Reynolds's Century Rain. The nanotech-enhanced post-humans are called "Slashers." At one point we get an explanation for the name:

'It's alright,' Niagara said. 'I won't be the least offended if you call me a Slasher. You probably regard the term as an insult'

'Isn't it?' Auger asked, surprised.

'Only if you want it to be.' Niagara made a careful gesture, lime some religious benediction: a diagonal slice across his chest and a stab at the heart. 'A slash and a dot,' he said. 'I doubt it means anything to you, but this was once the mark of progressive thinkers linked together by one of the first computer networks.'

I'm sorry, but the future technological branch of the human race is going to descend from the Fr1st P0st!!!-ers living in their parents' basements and posting Linux fanboi drool on Slashdot?

Other than that, it is quite good so far...