Chapters (69)
- Copyright Notice
- THE MILLENNIUM
- DON
- HANNAH
- KAREN
- DON’S MOTHER
- PETER
- THE MOTHER
- DR. BROWN
- HANNAH’S FATHER
- SERGEJ
- MOTHER
- THE RUSSIAN
- THOME
- THE RED DEER
- THOME’S FATHER
- WALTER
- KAREN’S BIG BROTHER
- PATUK
- OLD WOMAN
- POLICEWOMAN
- BEFORE THE INTERMISSION
- INTERMISSION
- HUMANITY
- SIR ERNEST (EARL)
- COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT
- PROGRAMMER
- MA WEI
- CARL
- THE FRIENDS (BEN, KEMAL, PAVEL, MAGGY, RACHEL)
- BODYCAM MAN
- MAGGY
- MR. M.
- ROGER
- THE AVERAGE ENGLISHMAN
- THE LAB DIRECTOR
- HONEST MAN
- JOB NOMADS
- COURIER
- BOXER
- ATTACKERS
- THE EIGHT-YEAR-OLD PROSTITUTE
- KEVIN
- SWEATING MAN
- BERTA AND HENRY’S
- RACHEL
- YOUNG MEN
- ARTHUR
- STUDENT
- ROB
- A WOMAN
- PHILOSOPHER
- THE MATTRESS SELLER
- ABDULLAH B.
- THE PRO-LIFERS
- PROFESSOR DR. KUHN
- JON
- PROFESSOR
- MIDDLE-AGED TEACHER
- WOMAN WITH THE THINNING HAIR
- BANKER
- THE CHILD
- THE NEW PRIME MINISTER
- MADAME CECILIE
- THE JOURNALIST
- THE WORLD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Or they understand that they no longer understand anything. Too bad. But you don’t notice that anymore with TMS. Speaking of boredom, you can see bodycam recordings you unknowingly appeared in on My Day, My Night. An extraordinarily successful startup that is financed entirely by the government. Isn’t everyone curious about feeling affirmed by the gaze of others? So. Yes. Karen’s hand has accidentally landed on her face. There it registers stubble growth. Karen isn’t startled; she feels great. Anchored in the earth. Unique and good-looking. She takes a deep breath on the street in front of the library. On such an almost absurdly warm, humid night, Karen actually just wants to fuck. But with whom? She sees nothing but slow men with doughy midsections who brush along the building walls looking insecure and tired. It’s something she hadn’t considered when she put the virus in the drinking water supply. That with this mission she would kill her own chances of a wild, heterosexual fulfillment of her sexual urges.
The rest is going
Terrific.
Realizes
PROFESSOR DR. KUHN
INTELLIGENCE: IQ 167
CONSUMER ACTIVITY: no shopping interests
INTERESTS: Bach
SEXUAL PROCLIVITIES: at most an objectophile
And rechecks the results that the artificial intelligence had culled from all available data about aggression, sexual behavior, and personality change from social media and the karma points trove, from insurance data, motion parameters, and the avatar cities. It has worked.
Dr. Kuhn, the son of a German immigrant, had refined the Google patent US6506148B2 for the manipulation of the nervous system with a screen. Since everyone in the country has a computer, a phone, or a smart TV, the poor get the devices for free, Kuhn can assume 99.9 percent coverage. The CNS is influenced by manipulated impulses that are embedded in nearly all software. Together with the pills, which over 90 percent of the population readily takes and which contain a mixture of estrogen and benzodiazepine, the following can be ascertained. Sexual urges, aggression, the ability to think logically and develop creativity have nearly disappeared. The populace exhibits a strong dependence. Addicted to the use of devices, which in turn further damage their cognitive abilities. The current numbers speak for themselves, no, they positively scream. Figuring in the incubation period, there’s been an 80 percent decrease in murders, 90 percent decrease in rape, 64 percent in property damage, 80 percent in domestic violence, 45 percent in breaking and entering, 66 percent in arson, and overall violent crimes have dropped 88 percent. There has, however, been a 10 percent rise in property damage to sex robots, and the suicide rate among males has risen 47 percent. Clinical depression numbers receded, and