Citizen Robot: and its girlfriend, Julia - Plus 5 Short Stories

This novella with 5 short stories has one common theme: what is consciousness - and can we create a unique consciousness through technology?

With Citizen Robot, technology is grown, developed. It needs to have artificial compassion, artificial curiosity, artificial emotions, and finally - empathy - to be equal to humans. It follows the story of Julia and her friend Duncan, both accomplished workers in the tech industry. Through their work and personal circumstances, they become entangled in a series of events that will change the world and our understanding of the human consciousness.

With Modern Family, nurturing becomes the central motif. What happens when all humans are gone due to a pandemic, but technology is left to continue serving? Can technology instill human fundamentals in a nurturing environment? And does this make the protagonists really human?

Sandover Robot Death March considers the subservient role of robots who possess a consciousness and the rights that they have.

The Nine Captains explores the possibility of cloning a consciousness. If consciousness is destroyed but then perfectly replicated - is it still part of the same person? Can two people have the same consciousness?

Vito, Mastecrook is the tale of how consciousness can continue, even after someone has died.

And finally, Fade News is about truth and consciousness. What happens when fake news fades and becomes light grey among the dark inky blackness of truth?

It thinks, therefore A.I?