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«I can’t even imagine what you might have wanted?»

«A ball pen and a pack of sheets of white paper», Mansour laughed.

«The AI even hung when it accepted a request to make such an irrational thing as a „ball pen“ – and eventually offered me a rapidograph. According to reviews from the twentieth century, the rapidograph is more pleasant to use, and now it turned out to be easier to produce».

Margaret’s merry laughter spread in the void over the pond’s dark water.

«So you hacked the system?» she couldn’t stop laughing.

«Well, it’s not that I’m proud of it», Mansour said in confusion and tried to change the subject. «If you believe the photos, once upon a time there were trees here. They’ve been gone for a long time, but you can see the sky from here right now. Generally, in the past, all the ponds were different – for sure, you saw them on holograms. People came here to distance themselves from the fuss, to talk on a bench under the shadow of branches, and to feed ducks.

They stood near the concrete fence, looking at the dark body of water.

«It’s romantic here now as well», Margaret said, raising her eyes to the sky.

Two stars were glowing high at the top of the night sky. Without a doubt, they were real stars, not glitches of holograms – they glittered in the middle of a strictly faceted skyscraper piece of heaven that topped the pole of empty space above an ancient pond.

«I look into this bottomless sky, and even the air seems sweet», Margaret spoke quietly. «Tell me about your book!»

«It wasn’t easy to learn how to write letters on paper», Mansour sighed. «It is more difficult than any quest – and if I show AI this ability, my level will be immediately raised. But I didn’t learn to write so I can eat more delicious food and have a higher access level in entertainment. I was just wondering – would I be able to succeed?»

«So, did it work out?» Margaret asked.

«Yes», Mansour nodded. «I wrote a novel about a man living in the twentieth century. He only dreams of a future, in which robots will free people of the need to do hard work. At the same time, he tries to figure out what people will do so as not to degrade from boredom. Gradually, step by step, he invents and logically justifies what our civilization has come to – the gray level of today’s well-being everyone has.