The device arrived on a Friday. By Monday morning, eleven million people in the tri-state area had used it.
Maya Chen had been one of the first. She'd ordered the Lumen within forty seconds of the announcement, sitting cross-legged on her bed in Greenpoint, credit card already warm in her hand. The pre-order page had crashed twice. She'd gotten through on the third try, heart hammering, feeling exactly the way she'd felt buying concert tickets in high school -- wanting something before she understood what it was.
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