Em “Slant” de Greg Bear, o que a conspiração estava tentando realizar?

Existem vários tópicos de enredo. Trata-se de uma jovem prostituta que visita um cliente, que acaba se matando por motivos misteriosos, tendo a ver com a cabala de vilões e sua trama. Outros tópicos envolvem um policial, um cientista e algum tipo de ação anti-herói que se junta a uma equipe de conspiradores em Green Idaho (um estado separatista). Há uma pirâmide em Green Idaho, onde as pessoas estão sendo mantidas em suspensão criogênica. A conspiração está envolvida com a pirâmide.

De sfreviews.net:

In a world where people routinely transform their bodies and minds to adapt, people who are able to cope without therapies and enhancements have an advantage ... some of these "naturals" conspire to return civilization to the good old days ... They manage to incorporate a flaw into the trillions of nanotech devices that have changed people, so that those devices simply expire in a catastrophic variant of the Y2K problem. People begin breaking down as physical and mental enhancements they have relied on now malfunction.

There's an AI based on insect minds, created by the conspiracy, for some reason. There are also swarms of genetically-engineered bees, created by a mad scientist, for some reason. The conspirators are planning to wait (in suspended animation?), till ... something to do with society changing with the nanobots sabotaged. (Hope I wasn't too long-winded.)