"That’s good," Oscar said. He handed her a pencil-shaped hand-scanner on its plastic lanyard. "Now, Doctor, let me acquaint you with our design philosophy here. You see, at heart, our system’s very flexible and simple. The computer always knows the location of every component that’s been tagged and initialized. The system also has complete algorithms for assembling the building from simple component parts. There are millions of possible ways of getting from start to finish, so it’s just a question of coordinating all the efforts, and always keeping track. Thanks to distributed, parallel, assembly processing ..."