Alice stood and approached the kitchen where she dragged a blue plastic sheet from the center worktop. Dust rose in a cloud as she opened a cupboard, found a glass, and filled it with water from the faucet. A pump chugged beneath her, its faint vibration buzzing the floor as she took a sip then sat on a stool. "They’ve built a city that can hold millions. When it’s your turn, you go into a huge hall and get scanned. It’s an industrial process, all worked out to the second. They must be shifting hundreds of thousands per day."