Or could it?
Google. The word was a relic, a linguistic fossil from an era of corporate empires. Kaelen had read about it in historical glossaries. A search engine that had tried to index everything, then pivoted to AI, then to planetary-scale data storage. Most of its servers were believed to have been vaporized in the Lithobraking Events—the asteroid showers triggered by the desperate geoengineering wars of the mid-21st century. after earth google drive
He thought of the sterile hydroponic bays of the Nostos , the recycled protein paste, the endless gray corridors. They weren’t living. They were surviving. And survival without a home was just a slower form of death. Or could it