Chen's Workshop
A shipping container of banned drone parts arrives in Lima. Chen Wei-Lin starts building things that shouldn't exist.
The First Thing He Hears
Seven years of silence. A doctor in Bolivia built something for exactly this brain. The NSAS doesn't restore hearing. It invents it.
The Exodus
The year the brain drain became a migration. Not a single decision — a hundred thousand of them, made one engineer at a time, until the country that built the machines couldn't keep the people who understood them.
Vitals
In the US, medicine became a function of your compliance score. In a Cochabamba clinic, the gatekeeper is a mind grown from a thousand cheap sensors, and the only thing it asks is what's wrong. A diabetic boy who walked south, the insulin a bioreactor prints for free, and the doctor who can't stop thinking about what else a machine that reads a body this well could do.
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