The Back Page: Strange geometry

While most of Cupertino’s most secretive divisions are concealed deep within Apple Park, hidden from prying eyes, the company’s most devious—most nefarious—group does its work right out in the open, kept separate from the rank and file by only thin sheets of engineered glass.

Within this fishbowl-like structure, personnel driven half-mad (on their way to fully mad) toil, unendingly, over their work, in their attempts to create something that transcends the limitation of matter and physics, something that helps shift consciousness into an entirely different plane. Passersby, if they listen carefully, may hear the keening, almost cackling noises that filter from within, but to a one they hurry by before they too are subsumed into this unholy work.

What strange geometry exists in this liminal space? Those here labor deep into the occult realms of anti-productivity, endlessly tweaking and adjusting their work so as to overwhelm their subjects, their victims, with what at first blush seem to be the most picayune of details, but are in fact traps from which their minds will never be able to emerge.…