my fantasy would be like a big translucent sphere, with a bunch of molecules inside it it, picture like each bead is a transclucent colored sphere with some text in it and some of the molecules are getting pulled toward the center of the sphere by little tug boats, and events are doinking out of the tugboats, and in the middle is all the information in your repos, like a cell i guess. work comes from outside the sphere and assembles itself into molecules in the outer parts, doinks around