What Young wanted from me, obviously, was to take the facts that some other researcher—much better at the brute-level stuff than me—had generated, and turn them into some overall sense of friend Jonathan Bridge. That involved sorting through the reams of facts on the datachip, looking for correlations—in time, in space, and in many other more theoretical "axes" (like "financial solvency")—and contradictions. In other words, the interconnections between the numbers. Take an example: Mr. Bridge was flat busted in June 2050, left Cheyenne, and returned in August to pay off a rather large bank loan with a single credit transfer. Conclusion? His business trip out of town had obviously paid off big-time. That sort of thing.