Mr. Daydreamer dreamt of ‘homo-sapiens’, a database on a server named ‘world’, being deleted. Everything about processes classified as ‘human’ , from names to attributes to priority, was stored in it. The processes panicked, almost overloaded the server for a moment. Soon, found pipes still available, they built up pipe-chain and forgot all about days of databases. Such processes worth any server, thought Mr. Daydreamer.
From The Road To Tycho, a collection of articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian Revolution, published in Luna City in 2096.
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college—when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.
This put Dan in a dilemma.