Like spinning plates. But with the impossibility of communication, these plates were dropping from their poles and shattering on the ground. Two of the major corporations Blake had consulted with for years had sent notice they would no longer be employing his services due, in one form or another, to his lack of communication. One he had expected: the ScanneX project, an app that would convert a phone into a millimeter-wave scanner, was one he had dropped the ball on. Using technology similar to airport scanners, the thought was to allow a phone to take, in effect, medical X rays of the body without the radiation. The other company had been a shock, and yet Blake’s business model, promising immediacy and an unparalleled level of service, was a noose he had knotted with his own hands. With Symbio on the rocks and his relationship with JT hanging by threads, Blake could soon find himself in a position he would have considered impossible a week ago.
