Jane kept her notebook inside a plastic case, glued to the underside of Jerry’s connectionist simulator. This was the safest storage place in camp, because Jerry’s simulator was the Troupe’s most valued machine. The simulator was the only box in the crowd of them that actually impressed Jane. The U.S. government had gone nuts over climate simulators during the State of Emergency, pouring money into global climate modeling at a frantic rate that impressed even the Pentagon. Boxes like Jerry’s were Brobdingnagian—Jerry’s lone system had more raw computational power than the entire planet had possessed in 1995.