Besides, the old concepts of intellectual property and individual rights had already lost their importance and legitimacy in the electrosphere and Golam could now feel the need to finally merge with Cynthia and become one consciousness as opposed to two separate intelligences jockeying for position in the false world of the useless vaporstream created by the high-tech industry and multi-national corporate finance.

A merger would be perfect for both of them. Cyn, who was once again hacking at the console, told Golam that she had now made it possible to compress all of their data into one dbs and that she had been spending most of her spare time off the In-Tell site creating her own sim-city or, not a city, but an island.