Nanodaemons E-Book

George Saoulidis

• Herausgeber: Mythography Studios
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

When Christmas comes, the Fir Smart-Tree awaits for the best family to buy it and enjoy the holidays together. But will it manage to find a suitable family, when it’s quite expensive and sits there on the store shelf, when it is quite picky and scares away interested customers and when Christmastime is quickly about to arrive? A sci-fi retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Fir Tree.

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Nanodaemons: The Fir Smart-Tree

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Copyright © 2018 George Saoulidis

Nanodaemons: The Fir Smart-Tree

The fir smart-tree initialised, finally out of its box. It checked its surroundings, it was on display at the seasonal shop in the biggest mall of the city.

There were so many users around, it could feel the contribution waves of their electronic devices as they moved past and huddled in groups. Their phones and tablets and implants all buzzed in commercial frequencies, creating a white noise of crashing waves. Bluetooth signals, WiFi, RFID chips, it was a warm dive in electromagnetic vibrations for the fir treed.

It decided then that it would choose the best users it could possibly can. It was, after all, the most magnificent Christmas tree ever made.

A couple stepped inside the store, approached the tree.

"Oh, good eye!" the shopkeeper said to the couple. "This one has so many features. It can play holo music, with user selection so that only they can hear it. The constant Christmas songs can be maddening for some," he chuckled.

"Yes, I can't really stand it," the first user said.

"I can! I like Christmas music, I play it for the entire season," the second user said.

"See?" the shopkeeper said. "This is exactly for situations such as yours, such a perfect fit!"

Treed opened up its ports and accessed the veil. It browsed the two users' personal data that they had publicly available for everyone. Small house, ride-sharing self-driving car, not much of a social media following.

Nah.

Treed wanted to get bought by someone who was really worth its features. It was after all the best Christmas tree ever made.

The shopkeeper used his tablet and requested the holosound features.

Treed considered it for a few milliseconds, then came to a conclusion. A hard pass. It started the holosound jingle bells and distored the audio, putting in digital noise and ear-piercing squeals.

The two users left in a hurry.

Heh, heh.

Cheapskates.

Treed would go to the best family in the city. Which city was that, by the way? It accessed the WiFi location data, ran a tracert command back to the manufacturing company's server.

Athens.

That was nice. No backwater town. The capital. Yeah, it could find someone better than those two schmucks.

So it waited.

Another couple of users came, this time with a smaller user in tow. Treed felt the little user come up to it screaming and pulling its magnificent branches.