One day, weeks after the event, the few survivors will have retired into adapted underground shells, while the entire infrastructure will continue its existence and maintenance on its own. Spambots will keep creating profiles, sending friends requests on MySpace, tracking each other's browsing habits, and posting comments with gift shopping cards for clinically deserted department stores.

A global synaptic network not unlike a brain stretched thinly across the urban surface - a brain, continuously involved with networking and marketing parts of itself to itself.

True exteriority achieved on a planetary level, one could almost hear its soundtrack.