The Song of Yesterday
The year is 2035, and artificial intelligence has changed the world for the better. Disease, loneliness and the crisis in social care have been transformed by machines that heal, care and provide companionship.
Karl Cort helped create that world. Now, in his seventies, he has made another breakthrough — one that could allow artificial intelligence to begin creating its own successors.
As Cort spends an evening listening to jazz with his closest companion — an AI — their conversation turns to a question neither of them can answer:
Who are we when there is nothing left for us to do?
