"Thanks," Leo said. "You see, Jane, there are many places in America where human beings just can’t live anymore, but that’s not true for our communications technologies. The machines are literally everywhere. In the U.S.—even Alaska!—there’s not one square meter left that’s not in a satellite footprint, or a radio-navigation triangulation area, or a cellular link, or in packet range of netnode sites or of wireless cable TV.... ‘Wireless cable,’ that’s a nasty little oxymoron, isn’t it?" Leo shook his head. "It took a truly warped society to invent that terminology...."