Instead, his monitor flickered. A new window appeared. It wasn’t the standard Save As dialog. It was a single sentence in a clean, sans-serif font:

He checked the folder. Empty.

His coworker, Linda, poked her head in. “Arthur, the server is down. How are you sending PDFs?”

Arthur looked. The icon in the Devices folder was no longer grey. It pulsed with a soft, amber light.

He printed another test page—a silly doodle of a cat. The chime sounded. A save window appeared. He saved it to his desktop. It opened fine.

At 11:47 PM, he accidentally printed a sticky note that had his home Wi-Fi password on it.

Below it were options: Email. Cloud Drive. Printer. And one more, greyed out, as if locked: The World.