With a Little Help Doctorow, Cory

The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get
Engineered Away
"Cause it's gonna be the future soon,
"And I won't always be this way,
"When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away"
-Jonathan Coulton, The Future Soon
Lawrence's cubicle was just the right place to chew on a thorny logfile
problem: decorated with the votive fetishes of his monastic order, a
thousand calming, clarifying mandalas and saints devoted to helping
him think clearly.
From the nearby cubicles, Lawrence heard the ritualized muttering of a
thousand brothers and sisters in the Order of Reflective Analytics, a susurration
of harmonized, concentrated thought. On his display, he
watched an instrument widget track the decibel level over time, the
graph overlayed on a 3D curve of normal activity over time and space.
He noted that the level was a little high, the room a little more anxious
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