Alice's Tale

Enter the world of the future, where market economics has become a finely balanced web of financially stable stocks, and humanity spends more time at home on the net than any other activity. The story is told in first-person narrative by an unnamed stock trader, who uses an advanced A.I. programme which he named 'Alice' as a servant of sorts, managing everything from news feeds, GPS navigation to his favourite food store, preparing coffee, and of course stock market trading. There's not many details of super-advanced technology, but there are many expositions of the world Alice's master lives in, a kind of steady-state economy, and how difficult it is for a trader to make a profit with mostly-stable stock prices. As one with no prior interest in finance or economics, I found the way the author described the world to be very interesting. Alice's relationship with her master is that of a hyper-efficient servant – at first. The protagonist himself comes off as cold, indifferent but logically efficient person who clearly relies on Alice to survive in this world. He's a bit irritating until he gets knocked off his high horse, which I found to be immensely satisfying.

Indeed, everything about this story is really cool.

Wish it is longer