Nothing & Everything


Usually when you do anything in life it has a focused application, but here at Project Q we have a problem. 

Our new platform can be nothing or everything. I’ve never been in this situation before, where what I can do can be utterly ignored or change the way everyone uses the internet (yes, seriously). 

Thankfully I’m getting great advice from some very experienced people.

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