Chapter One: The Words He Missed

An advertisement appeared in the lower-right corner of his screen. THE INFORMATION YOU IGNORE IS DECIDING YOUR LIFE. Beneath it sat one dark-red button: INSTALL LACUNA. Lin assumed it was another productivity tool pushed by the company. Its icon was a period with a piece missing. The publisher field was blank, and its entire user agreement consisted of one sentence: *This extension creates no information. It only marks information you have encountered but failed to notice correctly.* Too tired to be suspicious, he clicked Install. There was no progress bar. The screen flickered and the advertisement vanished. In the right margin of his document, however, a line of tiny crimson text appeared.