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5 June

Groundbreaking Smart Polygeneration Microgrid Project:
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12 June

The Use of High Performance Computing
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17 June

Getting it Right the First Time: 3 Ways Requirements
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Accelerating Time to Market Through Reuse
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Mastering Your Technology Career:
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I waited.
Nothing happened.
No one in the background gasped
or laughed or said, "What the hell-?"
Nothing.
Jake tried one last "Can I help you?" and
then cut the connection.
Trevor, patting Becky's back, said softly,
"Mandy...."
I cried, "Why didn't it work?"
Trevor's face changed. His gaze moved
to the computer. He knew, then; he was
always smarter than anybody else I knew.
He said, "Because Jake knew you'd do
something like that. He put a detailed
blocker on his system."
"I just wanted him to acknowledge I
exist!"
"Oh, he acknowledges it," Trevor said.
"How do you think he knew what you'd do?"
He held Becky, now squirming in her
snowsuit, away from him and stared
into her eyes, first the right and then
the left, again the right, again the left.
"The technology's available to everyone.
Including Jake."

i d o n ' t l i k e t o l i e t o t r e vo r .
Sometimes, however, you have to do certain things you might not want to do. He
went with me to the clinic, but of course
he couldn't sign any papers; he is not related to Becky. I told him I'd had both OptiCams removed. I swore on pussy willows.
Now I stand in my bedroom, which
sparkles with cleanliness. Becky sits in
her swing, gurgling at me. I lean closer
to her. My hair, clean and shining, swings
toward her. My makeup has been professionally done. My cleavage gets help from
a $200 bra. I smile at my baby.
Jake is watching. n
post your commeNts at http://
spectrum.ieee.org/kress0614. this is one of
six hard science fiction tales that will appear
in Coming Soon Enough, a forthcoming
e-book from IEEE Spectrum, featuring work
by Greg egan, brenda cooper, and others.

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