He saw it all now: that the refugees had been gathered into the realm of 
the Drummers for the harvest of fresh data running in their bloodstreams, that 
this data had been infused into the wet Net in the course of the great orgy, 
and that all of it was now going to be dumped into Miranda, whose body would 
play host to the climax of some computation that would certainly burn her alive 
in the process. It was Hackworth's doing; this was the culmination of his 
effort to design the Seed, and in so doing to dissolve the foundations of New 
Atlantis and Nippon and all of the societies that had grown up around the 
concept of a centralized, hierarchical Feed.