Funny how the least attempt at deception always seems to make life more complicated. - Vernor Vinge

Principal Alcalde was into a long speech, about the fast-changing world and the need for Fairmont to revolutionize itself from semester to semester. At the same time they must never forget the central role of modern education, which was to teach the kids how to learn, how to pose questions, how to be adaptable—all without losing their moral compass.

Over the last twenty years, the worldwide net had come to be a midden of bogus sites and recursive fraudulence…telling truth from fantasy was often the hardest thing about using the web.

Viki was awed by all the incredible quackery. Daddy thought such things were amusing—“like religion but not so deadly.”