Jane had helped to build the Project, as an undergraduate. It was something Professor Logan had been patiently assembling and refining for years—an eldritch chimera of monster clipping service, genetic algorithm, and neural net. A postliterate, neoacademic Correlation Machine, a megachipped Synchronicity Generator. There were a lot of lumps in April’s vast analytical stew: demographics, employment records, consumption trends. Geographical distribution of network data trafficking. Mortality rates, flows of private currency. And various arcane indices of graphic design—like April herself, the Project was very big on graphic-design trends.