Eternal Mechanical Summer
Returning from a fascinating lecture on the total war waged by artificial intelligence against humanity, a man entered the elevator of the building where he lived on the 24th floor. He pressed the button for the 24th floor, and the elevator began to move. Suddenly, the elevator stopped on the 23rd floor, but the door didn't open: no one had called it. After waiting for a while, the passenger started pressing various buttons: first, the one to open the door manually. It didn't work. He pressed it again. The same result. He tried to call the operator by pressing the button with a headset icon. No one answered. He took his cell phone from his jeans pocket and tried to call his wife, but the icon on the screen showed no signal. Feeling panic rising, the man started doing breathing exercises in an attempt to calm down. After that, he was calm for a while. Remembering that he had recently downloaded several of his favorite music collections to his phone, he turned on the player and...