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"The future is always uncertain. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy, and the future is the enemy of all our lives." So wrote role-playing game designer Alexander Cherry, in the introduction to his game Fastlane. "Still, people keep on planning, as if they can control the future."
Three-year-old Grace Webster perches on the operating table, tiny and cold, covered only by a diaper and her sandy-blonde, Raggedy Ann hair. Her blue eyes gaze in wary wonderment at the monster-sized machines sprouting tube tentacles that encircle her - machines that will guide some of the world's best surgeons four inches into her brain.
