# The Stamford augmentation factory

An industrial workplace gives the opening of Future’s Guardian a concrete scale and rhythm.

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## A site of production

The augmentation factory in Stamford belongs to the Augamani Corporation in Future’s Guardian. Ylan’s opening work takes place within this industrial setting. The factory connects the making of augmentations with machinery, maintenance and the movement of workers. Readers meet an advanced technology through the labor needed to keep production functioning, rather than only through a finished device or a statement about technological progress.

## Read space through movement

Follow how tasks lead Ylan from one part of the workplace to another. Differences between production areas and offices can prompt questions about who performs work, who directs it and how an institution presents itself. This is the fictional Stamford of this novel; the entry does not describe a real factory or provide a manufacturing guide. It introduces the workplace without revealing the larger developments that follow Ylan’s initial assignment.

## Questions for your reading

- What becomes visible when technology is introduced through maintenance?
- How can movement between rooms reveal differences within one institution?

## Source books

- [Future's Guardian](https://paulhaedo.com/books/futures-guardian/)

[The Stamford augmentation factory](https://paulhaedo.com/lore/futures-guardian-stamford-factory/)