Ms. A reached over toward the dashboard and gently touched the ON button. Some low-volume, prepared, electric guitars came up from the depths of the digital receiver. Then the guitars faded out and an anchorwoman's voice came on. It was Cynthia's manipulated voice reading the Prague-23 news update:

"Officially recovered from the Golem virus, the Prague-23 protocol is ready to continue charting its own consumption pattern. Scanning for exceptional news-bite infotainment we have been informed that recent policies enabling the inmixing of various new syntaxes as a way to create expanded fields of architectural digicash is finally open to members. In other news, quarterly trends in the City-That-Never-Sleeps show that there has been an increase in both youth violence and data corruption: if YOU don't watch your dbs, who will? And finally, In-Tell operatives are using the term "false consciousness" to describe merchandise sales over the last three months. To celebrate, you can now order your discounted P-23 upgrade by sending 50 credits to upgrade@p23.com...more as more develops, this is Luce Irrigation reporting for the In-Tell Network."