Issue 1 – Page 3: Gil and Roy turnkey into an unshielded pair of packet loss and backscatter. Silence suppression fills the room and in the dim silverlight a conformal coating of snowflaking swirls around their fuzzing heads. For a nanomoment, their carbon offset is almost shovelware ready. But the three nodes – Server, Router, and Switch – surrounded by their soft bit padding, have absorbed the appblast as if it were a blue bomb boot loader. They begin to breathe in a cellular automata that circulates in their centralized backup. The charged smart dust crams into their cache memory and meshes into smart matter, which begins to build an extensible messaging and presence protocol on the internet, big data, and beyond.
