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put it back into technology,

education and the arts.

You can transform culture.

I fund an opera company, symphony

orchestras, museums, theaters,

I have donated thousands of computers

to schools throughout the country.

The question really is,

how many of the people that you share

your discoveries with,

will be altruistic,

and how many will make fortunes

off of your generosity?

Come on in here.

Check this out.

- This is a SYNAPSE satellite.

- You bet.

I've got 240 of these up there.

The Mother satellite of each ring

passes over us

every night at 10 o'clock

to allow for station keeping,

re-programming, etc.

They in turn pass the data along

to the sister satellites in their ring.

- That's the coolest I've ever seen.

- I'm total wrapped up in this.

It's like I've got my own mission

control right here on my PC.

Activation codes,

IP addresses, flight path...

- It's the best train set ever, hum?

- You bet!

We've loaded a backdoor

to receive SYNAPSE transmissions

and all of our OS software

for the past 6 years.

We've developed compression

schemes and file formats that

achieve connectivity,

but..

We have a problem.

You know what that problem is?

Your adaptors can't overcome the

bandwidth limitations of

wireless hand-helds.

That's right.

Data takes too long to download

so your image gets...

Image, ah, goes fuzzy

Fuzzy, yeah. Heh.

Can you get this done in time

to meet your date?

With you, I can.

So I understand your friend Teddy is

kind of attached to his parents.

It's very commendable.

The truth is he's...

Milo, I know, he thinks we've...

cloned too many programs

an forced people to buy our inferior

versions and blah, blah, blah..

ad infinitum, ad nauseum

I've heard it all before.

I even understand it,

it's the nature of competitive business.

When you're on top,

people attack the quality

of your product.

It comes with the territory.

It's when the attacks get personal

the "Gary Winston is Satan" web sites,

digitizing my wife's face on

porn star bodies...

I don't like that.

You're one of maybe

with the mastery it's going to

take to finish this thing.

We'd love for you to join us.

The future holds limitless

possibilities, Milo.

You decide what the future

holds for you.

Let me know.

You know I look at you and see

something I haven't seen in 20 years.

What?

I see me.

Alice.

Yeah.

So When is Brian coming for the TV?

I don't know.

I'm going to leave you two alone, O.K?

Why are you doing this?

Teddy, come on.

He can't hit his date without you,

can he?

Remember that lecture Ginnings gave?

About open source.

Yeah.

He said human knowledge

belongs to the world.

Like Shakespeare or Aspirin.

Teddy, I know you are disappointed,

I just feel like...

...this is the right thing

to do for now.

They were interested in you too.

Gary even mentioned you.

Yeah, well..

I'm not interested in them.

That's fine.

I got what's important to you.

This is important to me.

And I know your are going to

get your venture capital.

We did.

We had to settle for 850

because we lost you.

So, it will be enough.

It'll be enough because

they've got you.

We're both going to do

something great.

Sure.

I just thought we were

going to do it together.

Milo, this is Mr. Barton

from the...

Department of Justice.

- Sorry about the glass.

- No problem.

Don't worry, Milo.

I'm here as a friend.

I understand you signed up

with Gary Winston.

You know Milo, we're at

a great disadvantage with NURV.

I mean our experts are not

as smart as theirs.

The truth is we could do with a real

smart guy on our team

to help us pick our fights.

I'm going to take a real shot

in the dark here, OK?

I can offer you $42,000

a year and a Buick,

if you will change your mind

and join us.

I'm hoping you have a feeling that

that is the right thing to do

Well, I'm sure what you're doing

is important, Mr. Barton,

I just fell like this is...

kind of my time to make my mark.

Well, like I said,

it is a shot in the dark.

No, no, no, please, please.

Keep it.

If you see something up there

that rubs you the wrong way,

do the right thing.

What are they building?

Oh, That's...

Building number 21.

It's way behind schedule.

It's still off limits.

It's a digital broadcast base.

It's taking forever to get the

fiber optics linked in there.

This is the Daycare Center.

Gary has put a lot of money

in there.

And the people with kids are

not hot shot geeks or anything.

They're just the payroll clerks

or whatever.

- That's cool.

- I know, that's really cool.

The card is encoded.

It tells us who came through

the door, and when.

If you see a tailgater,

that's somebody coming on your swipe,

report him.

If you see someone wandering around

without ID, it is your duty to

challenge him.

I don't give a sh*t if you're

a stock option billionaire.

If you don't challenge,

I'll have your butt.

He seemed a little tense.

Oh, Shrot, yeah, yeah.

He gets his chain pulled a lot

by the geeks around here

'cause he is non-tech.

He's an ex-cop or whatever.

Whoa..

Lisa actually looked at you.

She has a heavy graphics background.

She's programming scalable user

interfaces for the SYNAPSE modules.

She's a smart girl.

Every geek has a thing for Lisa, but

she won't let anyone get near her.

I have a girlfriend.

What?

You got like a "girlfriend"?

Like a 3-dimensional girlfriend?

That's really rare around here.

So, welcome to the egg.

Everybody listen up.

Can I have your attention, please?

This is Milo.

Milo, this is everybody.

Hello, Milo.

This is Lori, Darren..

You'll get to know everybody,

I'm sure.

And this...

is your world.

- Your are now officially an egg man!

- Woo!

OK, so we've got a...

electronic copy of Gary's book with

complementary player. As well as...

an audio version

narrated by Gary of course.

A hand held digi, cell phone,

and the keys to your brand new car.

I guess that's it, man.

Your counselor will be by to

fill you in on the rest of the details.

- You're gonna love it here.

- Thank you. And thanks for...

My pleasure, man. Good luck.

Hey, Milo!

Just a little advice.

Don't get too close to Stinky.

Hysterical, Desi.

What do they do for a village idiot

when you're here?

Dude! What do they do with all the

air fresheners while you're here?

I don't know.

Busy?

No,

I'm actually waiting for my counselor

to come by and introduce himself.

Oh!

Hello Milo, I'm Gary.

OK.

Come on. Let me introduce you

to the rest of the team.

Hey, Stinky.

Oh, hi, Gary.

How's it going?

Hi Gary, how's it going.

Desi and Stinky are

working on compression.

Josh and Vancat are

writing protocol handlers.

This is Milo.

Milo is working...

on the all important adapter.

All right, Milo.

When I announced the launch date

for SYNAPSE,

it wasn't arbitrary,

but it wasn't based on

our progress either, as you know.

If we do not have a workable

version of SYNAPSE by then,

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