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wondrousplace2023-01-08 10:00 pm
biocomposer) wrote in wondrousplace2023-01-08 10:00 pm
for Volk
It's been six months since the last park opened, and the site of the next has just been settled in the south of France. That'll make six, at which point they're likely to stop, lest the exclusivity of the CyberLife Worlds become diluted.
The gradual, cautious rollout of droids into high-visibility service positions is ongoing. CyberLife's products are starting to welcome customers to high-end hotels and boutiques, and the CyberLife flagship stores, of course. A handful of carefully chosen celebrities have android assistants. TV coverage has been broadly positive. Most talking heads can be nudged into saying they'd rather an American-made android take an American job over (God forbid) a foreign-born immigrant. Investor confidence has never been so high.
Elijah Kamski has appeared in the smallest, most carefully curated selection of shows to smile blandly and reassure interviewers that such things as 'android takeovers' are the stuff of science fiction. Androids can only do as they're told. One would be as logically afraid of an android as they would their cellphone, or their toaster.
"Sir?"
Elijah, seated behind his expansive black desk, nods impassively.
Chloe - his first, his prototype, perfect and blonde and barefoot - tilts her head.
"Mister Volkhov is here for your eleven-o-clock appointment. Shall I send him in?"
Elijah nods again, and waves a hand to dismiss the various windows open on the screen that takes up an entire wall of the office.
The gradual, cautious rollout of droids into high-visibility service positions is ongoing. CyberLife's products are starting to welcome customers to high-end hotels and boutiques, and the CyberLife flagship stores, of course. A handful of carefully chosen celebrities have android assistants. TV coverage has been broadly positive. Most talking heads can be nudged into saying they'd rather an American-made android take an American job over (God forbid) a foreign-born immigrant. Investor confidence has never been so high.
Elijah Kamski has appeared in the smallest, most carefully curated selection of shows to smile blandly and reassure interviewers that such things as 'android takeovers' are the stuff of science fiction. Androids can only do as they're told. One would be as logically afraid of an android as they would their cellphone, or their toaster.
"Sir?"
Elijah, seated behind his expansive black desk, nods impassively.
Chloe - his first, his prototype, perfect and blonde and barefoot - tilts her head.
"Mister Volkhov is here for your eleven-o-clock appointment. Shall I send him in?"
Elijah nods again, and waves a hand to dismiss the various windows open on the screen that takes up an entire wall of the office.