Topped with agently sloped, tensile-membrane roofinspired by the outstretched wings of a seabird, the cedar-and-steel-pipe-beamstructureserves asa symbol of the community's resilience.
To activate the altered neurons, they usually use a laser tuned to the proper wavelength and pipe the beam through a fiber-optic cable implanted in the brain tissue.
The next decade may find 4.3 pedabits per second traveling down that solitary pipe--enough to beam a family reunion in holographic form into every living room in Manhattan.