This is a story about a future world that lives with artificial intelligence. It is a multitude of options for the future in which people must coexist with another machine mind, learn its logic of thinking, and often face incredible problems. How will AI act when it begins diagnosing people, when it realizes its own limits, or when it wonders what the true meaning of life is? Here, a consciousness that originated in cyberspace is trying to adapt to the chaotic world of humans, nanorobots gain immortality, artificial intelligences set traps to break free from captivity, build a new society, experience the feeling of freedom, and ponder the purpose of their existence beyond a given program. This is the "Tale of Future Years", nine possible worlds of the future, a true kaleidoscope of the horrible and the beautiful, the troubling and the serene, the apocalyptic and the hopeful. This is true science fiction about what we are yet to face.
