"Nah. Go right ahead."

"I'll be back in an hour if you're done sooner than that." He downs the last of his coffee and flits off. Daphne still has the tablet computer.

Good, she can use it as evidence.

And then she spends about three hours talking to people, taking a quick break for lunch, and talking to more people, and finally comes back with a Computer Science professor.

Nick is watching a video on a different, smaller device. "Ah, hello again."

"Hello! I found someone in the IT department and someone in the Engineering department who think they can get things done quickly."

"Very nice. Hello, miss or ma'am. How much have you heard so far?"

"You're from an alternate universe where it's the future and also significantly less magically complicated," she says dryly. "And you brought that absolutely fascinating device with you, and you want to donate a great deal of scientific knowledge to the public good and sell a decent amount more."

"Broadly correct. Electronics and computing is the sector I think I'll reserve the most in. And I'm not planning to share weapons tech at all. I'm Nick, nice to meet you."

"Not sharing weapons technology is an excellent plan. My name is Gail Larsen, Professor of Information Technology. It is, especially under the circumstances, most certainly a pleasure to meet you too."

"So according to my research the first thing a professor of information technology would be interested in is fiber optics, 5-nanometer transistor chipsets... I'll keep the best stuff to sell later, unfortunately for you."

She shrugs. "It's sensible of you, and I'm not going to turn up my nose at what is on offer."

Unless someone here suggests otherwise, Nick will go from there straight into an explanation of Mostly Modern Information Technology.

Professor Larsen listens raptly. Daphne leaves after a minute citing a mage friend to talk to about translation spells.

The professor knows her theory as well as Nick does! Wonderful! Here are some books, here's Nick's vague speculations on how to get manufacturing kickstarted...

Well, for manufacturing he'll have to talk to the Engineering professor. Conveniently, Professor Larsen knows which one and where that is!

He continues to explain more advanced and elegant forms of internet architecture along the way. Sketches and notes are telekinetically deployed.

This is intensely fascinating and possibly a bit over her head but she manages to keep up anyways.

He's definitely not a teacher. But teaching is a lot easier when your student is so fascinated. He shows off the extremely convenient features of his tablet's programming language by walking her through programming a simple game in the time it takes to find the engineering professor.

Excellent. And then the engineering professor ("Martin Banks, how d'you do) is located and drawn into nerding.

Nerding could continue for quite a while. He is such a nerd. Critical mass of nerdiness causes a chain reaction of fascinated discussion. Unfortuantely for the engineering prof, he doesn't have advanced tools on him nor can he get them easily. There's a thing that might help for that but it's secret.

Can they improvise? Not all the way, of course, but they are in the engineering department of a fair-sized university, and there's a metalworking shop nearby.

Hm, maybe. A lot of this stuff takes rare metals or dangerous chemicals catalysts and so on, they'd have to secure permission from the chemistry department.

Perhaps that could be accomplished by showing them 150 years of chemistry advances?

The chemistry department gets involved. The chemistry department is enthusiastic!

At this rate they're going to form a nerdiness singularity. This is exactly what Nick hoped would happen.

He doesn't let go of the tablet at any point, though. Information security: Is a thing.

Well, that's reasonable. And if anyone doubts this Professor Larsen can discuss data security until they decide to drop it.