This idea that somehow Black Swan—a predictive intelligence built as a quantum computer—had received communication from itself in the future, a future where mankind had been wholly eradicated by a fungal pathogen that began like white-nose syndrome in bats? It was truly, spectacularly deranged. But Bill was bullish on it. Said, “It’s possible. Quantum entanglement is a helluva thing, Moira. Time and space are not hard limits on that entanglement.”
