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An Android: Netrunner strategy article by 2013 World Champion Jens Erickson
Welcome to the future!
The miraculous rate of recent human achievement is leading us rapidly toward a new Golden Age. While we were, at one point, skirting a path that would take us perilously close to the exhaustion of Earth's natural resources, we have since found new sources of energy, having reached out to the moon and Mars - and beyond.
Human beings have more time than ever to pursue intellectual and cultural endeavors, owing to a growing labor pool of bioroids and clones. And our culture is available to us twenty-four, seven, three-sixty-five since everything is accessible via the net. In fact, the net isn't just a host service for millennia of human culture; it may, itself, very well be humanity's greatest cultural achievement.
Capable of transmitting more bytes of data every second than were generated through the first five-thousand years of written language, the net hosts our dreams, our aspirations, and our business plans. So in light of the terrorist threat posed to humanity's interests by those would-be hackers known as runners, we recognize the importance of securing private information in order to further human progress...
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