anthropology
Author(s):
Lauren Gunderson
“I built you because this is what I do. It’s my job. These are my tools, I used them, and honestly it’s not that hard—you’re basically a chatbot.”
Merril is one of Silicon Valley’s leading software engineers, but her life disintegrates when her younger sister Angie vanishes on her way home from college.
A year later, when the police have long abandoned their search, Merril assembles all the digital material Angie has left behind and sets about building herself a digital simulation of her sister.
The resultant ‘virtual Angie’ offers her some solace—until, that is, it starts to reveal new details about the real Angie’s disappearance.
