Summary

Chapter 1 – Martin Kenneth Banks loves science and getting into trouble on the internet by messing around with computers. Though much of what he does is illegal, he does not consider himself a hacker because he doesn’t like the image of the label, and because it is exhausting to be rebellious all the time. Instead, Martin wants to do something important to be remembered for. Martin hacks into the website of a cell phone company that made AM radios in the 1930s. He looks at a file called “repository1-c.txt”, running a search for his name as he always does. He finds information on himself, changes his height entry to make him six-foot-one, rather than five-eleven, and gets up to use the bathroom. He discovers he is suddenly taller. Shaken, Martin readjusts the entry on his height to five-eleven. Martin thinks about what...