"I’ll draw you a little picture," Benedetta said. She spread out her furoshiki and pulled a stylus from behind her ear. "Let me tell you an interesting fact of life. About the medical-industrial complex." She drew an x-y graph with two swift strokes. "This bottom axis is the passage of time. And this is the increase in life expectancy. For every year that passes, posthuman life expectancy increases by about a month."