As the site of continuous (24 X 7) language investigation, HTC as teleported through cyberspace provides the cyborg-narrator with a platform to turn life itself into a scene of research and development. Should some of the discoveries that materialize out of this R&D environment become popularized in the mainstream media discourse, then HTC would find itself being transformed into some form of celebrity. It is here, in the phenomenon of flesh become celebrity, that The Value-Added Network takes shape.