Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can’t feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations? - Daniel Suarez

Their transmitters are nanotech — diamond lattice structures they call a ‘q-link’ — a tiny mass that they vibrate at high frequency to send gravitational waves through higher-dimensional space.

Innovation was a curious thing. It never failed to amaze him.

And yet this place confirmed what they’d long known: that truly disruptive innovation rarely came from the expected sources. They’d had so much more luck investing in eccentric B and C students. The rationale was simple: Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it — and were often tainted by it. Especially when success and peer approval beckoned. One did not accidentally graduate from top-tier schools. One strove to get in and to maintain grades once there, and to do that, one usually needed to be a master at conformity. To excel in all the accepted conventions.

No, the truly different thinkers often went unnoticed.

Her new boss was an undead automaton from hell, true, but no job was perfect.