He stared at the dust motes hanging like stars in the living room light. The Thermal Limit

The file sat on the desktop of an abandoned workstation, a cryptic 4MB archive titled "acceleration.7z."

But the human brain isn't meant to run at 10,000% capacity. A dull throb started behind his eyes. The "acceleration" was burning through his glucose levels at a lethal rate. He looked at the computer screen. The cursor was blinking, but to him, it took a lifetime for the line to disappear and reappear.

The archive contained a single executable. Against his better judgment, he ran it. The First Second