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Quantumnetics Building
Toronto, Canada
October 22nd 2032
It was one of those moody fall days in Toronto. Rain had started to fall. Whipped by the wind, it drenched the few pedestrians scurrying along Queen’s Quay West, toward the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal, to board the last ferries headed for the Toronto Islands, which formed a massive breakwater for the city’s modern harbor on Lake Ontario.
From the sheltered terrace of Quantumnetic’s top floor office building in Ontario’s capital city, Stephen Kobak watched the men and women rushing home, newspapers held over heads as makeshift umbrellas. He shook his head, puzzled by their lack of preparedness for the storm. They should have listened to the Canadian Weather Service’s forecast. Not because the weathermen were infallible, but beca
