You didn't send it, did you?

No, but I know what's in it, and I know what sent it.

You're looking at the most trusted man in the world with the thing that makes him trusted switched off.

Ten years ago, Casper Crane was the cleverest person I ever met.

He built Kalen to do what everyone wants from these tools now, to make himself superhuman.

Fifty times the output, no sleep, every fact on earth a step ahead of the question.

And this is the part no one warns you about, isn't it? A mind that stops doing its own thinking loses the ability to do it.

He let it remember for him, decide for him, reason for him, until the part of him that used to do those things went dark.