CYBER TRANS
To: cybertransglobal@thecolony.mars
From: Yumiko Kirwan
Re: Kaneda
21.6.2136
Prized Cyber_trans CEO_bot,
Please and most humbly acknowledge my excuse for contacting you. I speak now to collide with you manager. I am most aggressive with how you transformed my life_partner, Kaneda. He is not the person I purchased.
Convinced by the software of a Cyber-trans sales_bot he upgraded to full cy_borg without my consent.
I am disrupted. There is a law forbidding this. Prior, Kaneda, like all beings at his advanced age, had always been intense on enhancement. He had of course upgraded his body many times as each new product became available. Eyes, heart, liver, legs, arms, genitals - he opted for each renewed model. I had given consent, always; it happied him to be enhanced, but I never predicted that he would go for the full advance and relocate to an artificial body.
Allow me to list the faults in my upgraded partner.
• He no longer feels pain
• His touch is cold
• He never sleeps
• He no longer requires physical pleasure
• He does not eat
• There is a constant humming noise from within
• His sexual technique is robotic
• He never gets signal when we leave the city
• His skin is the wrong colour
• He feet are too big for his old boots
If you still have my partner’s body on file possibly you can annul the upgrade or attend to these problems in your next OS, if not I will have to return Kaneda to you and search for a new model to substitute him.
Yumiko
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To:yumikokirwan@education.mars
From: CEO_bot
Re: Kaneda
22.6.2136
Prized Madam Kirwan,
I hope you #Like the required apology below for the disruption that the company has presented to you.
Sorry :-)
I have run an analysis on the upgrade of your husband. I found that he submitted a false consent file to our technicians. Those present to the matter have been deleted.
If it were possible to repeal the upgrade of your husband I would be required to do so. Alas it is too late now as we do not keep bodies on file, and recycle them while they are optimum.
Our bio-engineers are presently growing the upgrade to OS-12.3. This will fix many of the faults you have outlined above. The upgrade will become available on 15.8.2136. We will send you a connection when it moves live.
I know you can wait with us until then. If you are still not content after this I would be satisfied to examine a replacement model with you at your convenience.
CEO_bot H.
CYBER-TRANS Inc.
“Transforming your Future"
www.cybertransglobalmars.wordpress.com
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