Service Model

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

“Are you suggesting that they may have programmed me?” asked Uncharles, who found this sort of maundering difficult to follow. “I think maybe they helped program God,” the Wonk whispered, hugging her knees. “I mean, that would be justice, wouldn’t it?” “Justice is a human-made thing that means what humans wish it to mean and does not exist at all if humans do not make it,” Uncharles said. “I suggest that ‘kind and ordered’ is a better goal. It is possible that the world was once both kind and ordered. It is possible that it may be so again. Perhaps you will make it so.”