For a computer or network to work, the data has to behave in a controlled predictable way.

People don’t drive like that. Drivers would make for a terrible computer.

“The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see. And then, one day…”