The Montreal Project [02]

Obligatory disclaimer: this is fiction. Similarity to any persons or corporations living or dead blah blah et cetera.
-JA

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Before Dougho heard the news about Asstech Solutions and realized what had been happening had been happening for months he marveled at how easy it was to let international events and wars and politics dissolve into abstracts, and in this place where folks had more immediate concerns it was even easier, especially when you only understood every third word or so of most conversations.

Gradually he pulled his head out of the wasps' nest and found he didn't miss the digital universe. Well, okay, maybe at first, maybe it was a little like having a phantom limb. But after his dopamine pathways were rewired he remembered how much he enjoyed reading words on paper.