Cyber koan #1 If all things are 1 or 0, what is the point in numbers? There is a story about a monk who came to the robot priest in search of enlightenment. But that is not the real story. There was no monk, and the robot was far from a priest....

“The Jellyfish” art by K.A. Teryna A jellyfish swam slowly right through the dataveneer and hung at the center of the room, chaotically wiggling its tentacles. It was so dazzlingly multi-colored that it made Kalinka shut her eyes. She had already forgotten how bright colors could be....

What if the world that cats see is not entirely real? In earlier days, before the phantoms came, the cat could not even speak, let alone set out on the path of a legendary life. In those days, the cat was nothing more than just an ordinary cat....

A vista opens on a blur of static and noise, a jumble of grays of different saturations and shades. Above: a dim source of light. Before: a long, thin shadow.  You shake your head, adjust the focal length of your eyes, and everything before you becomes crystal clear....

Liz stepped off the bus in her new black dress and lime-green slingbacks, feeling self-conscious. Was her outfit too elegant? Too sexy?  Did it show too much effort? She recognized him immediately from the agency photo. He was waiting for her at the waterfront, leaning on the balustrade, the late afternoon sunlight turning his hair to gold....

They call themselves office drones, but they are humans, and they are people. They call me the Office Drone: I am an unmanned aerial vehicle, but I am also a person. I say that I am a person too, even if Brad, who is from a place he calls accounting, thinks that the matter is up for debate during team lunches....