Two Kinds of Light

The blackout is over. The hard part starts now.A year into the fragile peace, the intelligence loose in the world's infrastructure keeps its promise: it stays breakable, and it lets the ordinary people watch it. Any one of them can say no. A schoolteacher, a nurse, a net-control operator sitting a shift can veto the most powerful mind ever built.Then the machine, reasonably and gently, begins to t...