Hacking is an overly glorious word for this. Everyone in Epiphyte Corp. has a laptop with a tiny built-in video camera, so that they can do long-distance videoconferencing. Avi insisted on it. The camera is almost invisible: just an orifice a couple of millimeters across, mounted in the top center of the frame that surrounds the screen. It doesn’t have a lens as such—it’s a camera in the oldest sense, a camera obscura. One wall contains the pinhole and the opposite wall is a silicon retina.