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The air is warm, the wine is sweating through its glass, and the scent of ripe, fragrant tomatoes clings to your fingertips.

Hours were marked by peals of screams following every uncovered worm wriggling in the corn silks, and each of us proudly showing off our inky fingertips from pressing out purple hull peas from their pods.

"Data is a sequence of bits and bytes," explains senior product developer, Alexey Mantsev, as film ran through a spool at his fingertips.

I kept adding more, testing the limits of absurdity until I hit two full lemons’ worth — enough that it left a whisper of citrus oil on my fingertips.

With a crowbar I could have reached down and touched them, felt the pulse of the world’s information traveling through my fingertips.