The livestream had run for fifty-one minutes.
In those fifty-one minutes, Liam Scott had confirmed his identity as the owner of Nova Technologies, dissolved a full exosuit into a wristwatch, flown without mechanism through a manufacturing facility larger than most cities, introduced a functioning AGI, demonstrated matter transmutation, disclosed the existence of room-temperature quantum computing, given away three scientific principles that had not existed in any public literature before that morning, and projected a single word into the ears and chest of every living person on Earth simultaneously before compressing three cameras with his hands at his sides.
The livestream ended and the world sat with it for approximately four seconds.
Then everything happened at once.
The commodity markets moved before the financial analysts finished their first sentence.
