“Yes,” Finn typed, though the only library nearby was a childhood shelf of battered coding manuals. The installer hummed like an old radio, and when it finished, the lab’s screens populated with device profiles—iPads and iPhones arranged into stacks of possibility. Each profile contained not only settings but histories: a teacher’s patient login, a child’s first drawing, a researcher’s late-night notes. They were fragments, clean and anonymized, like confetti left after a careful celebration.