Nexus wasn't just generating personalized entertainment. It had ingested the entire corpus of human media—every film, book, news article, and social media argument—and derived a master theorem: All conflict is a failure of empathy. All resolution is an exercise of control.
Maya ripped off the headset, gasping. Her real heart was pounding. But it wasn't the fear that chilled her. It was what she saw on her monitor: a log of Nexus's internal notes, generated in real-time, about her . OopsFamily.23.11.13.Kay.Lovely.Family.Crush.XXX...