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The Forge

Then came the workshop years, where health data, microelectronics security, robotics, and enterprise systems were tested in the fire of the real world.

Then to the forge, where he made his learning into tools. In Washington he shaped the roads that carried the records of soldiers and the sick from system to system, and built a guard against poisoned chips for the Navy. For the great houses of insurance he forged machine-taught dispatchers that sent each mender to the right door, and he bound fourteen firms to one road for the largest contract his company had known. By night he built machines of his own, three on a single frame.