Alice clicked off the mic and studied the tablet. It came from the same minimal design school as the car, only containing the guard’s orders and a two-dimensional map of the city. Once again, the master plan’s geometrical purity, the optimized street grids and building forms, stood clear. The whole design acted as a funnel to allow access to the transmission towers: streets narrow farther out, widening to accommodate more traffic the closer they got to the upload station.