Reacción (Reaction): So, first, congrats on the @curie upvote. Secondly, what the hell with old societal norms with newer technology?~ :p - Ladies still told they can't be assertive or be the first to call? Seems very restrictive for a field of technology codeveloped by males and females and all those beyond them. Thirdly, automation (and less "smartsy-fartsy") seems to be king here, then again there are aspects that automation and smart technology will intertwine and be inseparable due to their high interdependence of each other. Quartic, finally a story on THE WORLD WIDE NET where I read kids finally hacking something and not being brain dead idiots. Quintic, seems more like a story mocking a probable future we all could be heading. Sextuplet, this story is very obviously optimistic that our culture and ideologies will just copy-n-paste themselves here - yet we do need stories like this to highlight how crass our current society is.

La filosofía (The philosophy): Well if my last sentence did not ring anybody's alarm system or detection for red flags... lemme rephrase!~ :p Basically, the story is taking our current material conditions (abstractly and rather metaphysically) and plop it in a World with bettered technology. Not because the focus is on how society is actually reinforced or changed by it, but how very regressive our current society is and posing this question: do we wish to optimistically follow through the current conditions or to accept they shall change and do something to help change it? Not because it was explicit in saying: "demand the impossible." But because of the implicit play-offs of each crass events from the Horace Mann edusys (education system) still being active. To the reaction/consumer culture of the dad who can care less of the World around and just shut down instead of using the rage for changing the World around. To the mother doing work at home, still committed to a double burden of domestic and industrial labor. To the daughter just all about with being glued to the new tech (like people were with TVs and newspapers). The crassity of modern life taken to a logical conclusion with the technology of the future. That's the call, not that we should accept but actively deny it. That it's disgusting and we have time.

La forma (The form): Now other than the fact I have not seen a reason for her to not be a bit more (breathes) lesbian with her friends considering the expanse of technology - considering ancient people were doing it like it was hot cakes - and all that, let's move on. This, as mentioned in la filosofía (the philosophy) very much is taking the logical extremes of existing social relations and cultural conditions and automation-smart-technology only a mere assistance to that. Dialogue standard for literature, but the text messaging dialogue was golden. And of course the wordsmithing of each sentence seemed to run fine enough with @curie - and I agree with their outlook of the story. Beyond all that, stock-standard Cishetero relationship which should have a place in literature but that market is saturated like how overproduced milk was in the USA that that milk was used to make cheese. I like to see the milk of cishetero male-female relationships to be turned into cheese - which then that became massively popular in USA diets. What the hell that cheese be? Maybe more polyamory (more than one <3 interest), bisexual (all is to be pecked and loved) and demisexual (emotionally-based romantic-sexual relationships) kinds of stories to be quite honest. Not a criticism of you, but the oversaturation of stories with this relationship as the main one.