A few excited workers, vivisectees, and rebels, after talking to some technical cafe goers, decided they would launch a hackerspace around the theme of exotic technology.

"MindControlSpace" they called it, with a logo of a crossed bonesaw and arduino.

It was huge. There were rooms for AI, rooms for surgery, different rooms for play with wormholes, robots, and psychic powers, all sorts of stuff.

MindControlSpace is open to the public. A lot of the members are entrepreneurs, looking to start new lines of products using the technologies they discover. But the tool libraries, workspaces, and classes are free. "Everybody needs to know about this!" one boss is quoted saying, on the signs and pamphlets.