"What about the women."

"Most women cannot read in Osirion. It's more common in places that send them to school."

"It's going to be less useful if they can't figure out the end-user hardware unless you have solutions for that up your sleeve," Cam points out to Anaander. "If the content has to be audio and pictoral that means they need cameras and mics and editing software and can't just learn to type."

"Everyone likes watching and uploading videos. And it socializes them well, for the most part."

"I'm also way less confident the manufacturing base can handle making new ones than that they could figure out copper IUDs. I could make a huge batch and Osirion could export them for a while but they won't be able to repair them and it'll be all very command economy. Unless there's, say, a spell specifically to duplicate objects? Or to fix them even if they're complicated and you don't know how they work or what broke?"

"There are spells for that. I don't know how they'd interact with these objects in particular."

"You want to try it? I can make a busted computer."

"Go ahead."

Cam makes a wiped version of the computer he had which broke right before he upgraded to a chiplock.

He doesn't actually prepare Mending but many of the assistants should.

Cam pokes the computer and it starts up. "That's promising!"

"How widely known is the spell -"

"It's a cantrip. Lots of people know it and there's no limitation on how frequently they can do it."

"Let a thousand cottage computer repair businesses bloom. Okay, the other problem is input. I don't know your languages or even your alphabets, and I can set machine translation to it but machine translation is not that great and it'll be worse if you don't have very very large written corpuses of all applicable languages. I could maybe teach someone to set up novel soft keyboards people can download. Probably your dad, who I imagine knows all the commonly used alphabets and enough about the languages associated not to make any dumb mistakes about setup. I'm going to need some very handholdy introductory setup software on all the machines... Anaander, I don't suppose you have actually-good machine translation and language handling I can steal. Mine does text and is pretty dim about it without help."

"What would you need to know to steal it?"

"Name of a program? I can do format conversion but tell me how much processing power it calls for. Or if it wants dedicated hardware tell me uniquely where one is and I can copy that. - and you have AIs so if you happen to be enslaving AIs to do your translation that won't work, can't make minds."

"What counts as a mind. Our translation program isn't properly a person, but it's reasonably smart."

"I cannot make a bird that acts like a bird but I can make a video game with reasonably clever NPCs whose dialogue is not all pre-written?"

"Well, no harm in trying." She tells him the name of a program to conjure.

He sticks it into his computer.

And the program comes to life with happy music. "Translation!! How can I help you?"

"Hi! Does the magical translation effect I am using right now work on you?"

"I don't recognize that language. Do you want language-learning mode?"

Cam turns it off. "Okay, I can bundle that with everything. I may put the entire Library of Hell in your basement just so you have a prayer of finding anything I forget. I might be around longer than five days if they take a while to try having my summoner dismiss me but if they don't wait my time's at a premium. I should probably also do IUDs, they aren't hard to learn to insert and can last thirty years and work really well and you have magic healing if people fuck up because they didn't attend enough years of medical school and it won't take me long to teach someone to do it even given that I went to demon medical school and only learned how to remove them in the conventional manner."

"I can arrange for everyone who provides medical services through the church to come attend training."