Read Chapter 28: — THE SECOND VERSION

Aurora 2.0 combined better detector performance with more robust software and lower service complexity.

Its development involved industry partnerships, public funding and ruthless regulatory scrutiny.

Daniel welcomed the scrutiny.

Marcus's fall had cured him of any romantic idea that good intentions protected a project from bad incentives.

Every conflict was declared.

Every claim was tested.

Every failure log was retained.

The system eventually entered wider use.

Daniel's name became attached to it despite his efforts to keep the team visible.

At the launch, he asked engineers, technologists, radiochemists, nurses and patients to stand before he did.

"If you remember only the professor at the microphone," he told the audience, "you have misunderstood how medicine advances."