Tinkertech

I left the meeting chamber and headed for my laboratory. It was going to be harder working with Gridline’s equipment virtually; normally I could have simply had some of the equipment delivered to me. That wasn’t going to be an option for a while.

However, Armsmaster had created a virtual holographic interface for just this kind of thing; I was expected to maintain it, which wasn’t that hard.

It wasn’t as good as the real thing, but I’d figure out what I had to.

I spend the next six hours working on some of Gridline’s most basic stuff. It was gratifying to be able to actually make progress, and I dashed off my notes to Dragon with a request to send them to Masamune. No single invention was going to cover the multiple issues that the grid was having, but what we needed was ways to not just patch the grid, but improve it relatively cheaply. The problem was that in the kind of cascade we were facing, power stations would have blown and equipment would have caught fire. That meant that I needed to focus on being able to replace the things that would have been destroyed, things that were normally custom built and expensive.

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