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One night, Daniel Rizzy was the only person awake on Zylker’s IT team, and the clock was already running. He was also the only thing standing between a P1 outage and 10,000 customers. Rizzy works nights for ZylkerXchange, Zylker’s foreign currency exchange app. He lives on the city’s outskirts, where the air is clean and quiet, and the night shift suited that life. Most nights, nothing happened. Some nights, everything did.

There was a version of daily life, not long ago, that ran entirely on physical effort. Booking a trip meant a visit to a travel agent. Ordering lunch meant walking to a restaurant or calling and hoping someone picked up. Buying something for the home meant a trip to the store and a checkout queue. Paying a bill meant visiting a bank branch and engaging with a teller. None of it was instant, and nobody expected it to be.