12 November 12, 2040 “Is there a cost when people share thoughts? Will they become too much alike: mental twins, or a nation of robots? Better to ask the cost when people do not share their thoughts: misunderstandings, lies, betrayals. It is of these that human history is made.” not The Speeches of Damon Leiter The Speeches of Damon Leiter Collected by V.A. Klug Damon"s two-month recovery had provided a lot of time for him to figure out why he wasn’t dead. The data he’d needed for that had come from second-hand sources, though: extrapolated, not known with any certainty. His digital memory of the actual critical moment was gone forever. The ’net provided plenty of information about the Mori 2 Tower. Elevators were controlled by a central computer—ho

