What gives lately with Jane Metcalfe and her tools

*I guess it's a bit much to be praising Jane on a WIRED blog, but I listened to that, and that was pretty good. That was very Jane Metcalfe. There ought to be more Jane Metcalfe stand-in characters in science fiction novels. Even the dystopian ones could do with some Janes.

Jane and her former colleagues, who are very respectful, and justly so

*What's the historical story, the basic plot-arc with Jane, anyway? Well, it looked something like this:

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*That comes from a recent Benedict Evans presentation, by the way. He's another guy who ought to appear more often in novels.

https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations