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The lifecycle of software objects - 4/5 Longest story of the bunch, more like a novella, about artificial intelligence in the form of cutesy virtual "digients" and their developing relationship with their carers. I didn't really understand why the AI had the limitations it had or why the Digients continued to have such limited. childlike grammar even when their logic skills developed to that of adult humans.
— Apr 22, 2020 04:19AM
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom - 4.5/5 - A story about a world where Prisms, some kind of quantum physics devices, split the universe into two versions whenever they are activated, allowing also communication between the parallel universes (and are available for private use). Deals with the implications of the awareness of such parallel realities on our choices.
— Apr 29, 2020 04:30AM
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Omphalos - 3.5/5 Probably the strangest story in the collection, although wildly imaginative, it's set in a universe where Earth is dominated by religion because there are actual proofs of God having created the Earth some thousand years ago. The problem the story deals with is, what if that creation was an accident and we were not the point and main reason for the act of creation?
— Apr 25, 2020 09:11PM
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The great silence - 4/5 A sad little story about humanity's quest for intelligent life in outer space, told by a parrot, whose intelligent race is being ignored and destroyed by humans, right here on Planet Earth.
— Apr 25, 2020 02:36AM
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The truth of fact, the truth of feeling - 4.5/5 Probably the best of the bunch so far, the most relatable and easy to imagine, it's a story about the introduction of videologging and a new software that enables instant access to videos of your life making all "memory" permanent and infallible (spoiler, there are positives and negatives). Less dystopian version of the Black mirror episode.
— Apr 24, 2020 10:35PM
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Dacey's patent automatic nanny - 3.5/5 A story about an alternate universe where an inventor makes automated nannies in the early 20th century and the effect being raised by a kind of machine has on a person. A stretch but continues with the theme of human contact and interaction as the basis of society.
— Apr 23, 2020 04:24AM
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What's expected of us - 5/5 Very short but powerful story about determinism.
— Apr 17, 2020 07:43PM
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Exalation - 4/5 - A story about a strange world inhabited by machines which run on air. Ingenious.
— Apr 17, 2020 05:18AM
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The Merchant and the Alchemists gate - 4/5 Very engaging story, set in the exotic Middle East of the middle ages, just not sure if the resolution really landed and normally time travel opens more questions than it can answer.
— Apr 16, 2020 04:35AM