Dr. Crystal Lee first joined Central Square Theater as the featured scholar for the October 2022 reading of The Moderate at the MIT Museum. Nearly four years later, she returns to the work—now in full production—to reflect on how the script, and the digital world it confronts, have both evolved. New questions have emerged: What can stories reveal about the systems they’re built from? How much do they risk obscuring in the process? What happens when a play about online life evolves alongside the internet it critiques?