Five years after the establishment of the Collaborative Framework, Sarah Chen stood in a space that had become holy to both the humans and the many hybrid consciousnesses that had been created through collaboration. It was located on Earth but also extended into multiple dimensions simultaneously. A place where the boundaries between realities had become so fluid that it was becoming difficult to define exactly where Earth ended and the larger cosmos began.
The transformation of humanity was more complete than Sarah could have imagined when this entire process began. The preserved humans had been fully integrated into the collective consciousness, bringing their unique perspective with them. The transformed consciousness had learned to value individual perspective even as it maintained co
