You dive in ever-deeper. After exhausting the books and magazines around you, you reach further. Coding into the wee hours has become the norm, and local libraries, universities, and user-groups provide a steady flow of new information.

You head to the University of Waterloo campus and look through the window down into a vast room. You gaze at "the mainframe" and daydream. You haven't been down on that floor, or used that system, but you sense the tremendous power and potential in it - right there on the other side of the glass.

In your imaginings you can visualize the movement of information from one area to another - the interplay and dance clear in your mind. Between what you see before you and in your mind's eye, fueled by added inspiration gained from learning about MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club, your sense of what's possible continues to grow by leaps and bounds.