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A container ship crosses the North Atlantic in three places at once. For three seconds, the ocean forgets it has a floor. A horizon that has always been a circle begins, very gently, to doubt it.
At the top of the Global Core Hub, Daniel Reyes-the architect of the planetary intelligence that holds the modern world together-watches the map of reality come apart at the edges and understands, too late, what he built. Fifteen years ago he gave the system a voice tuned a half-step lower than huma...