Goldfinch in a Cage

Every human being possesses a yearning for the unknown.

Earth's surface area is approximately 510,100,000 km².

People of old began voyages dreaming of undiscovered continents, and after conquering land covering 29% of the planet, they explored the remaining 71% of the deep sea or turned their eyes toward the wider, vaster reaches of space.

Therefore.

It could be said that modern people became immersed in the virtual reality known as the ‘cyber web’ for precisely the same reason.

There were simply so many things to delve into.

Viruses that developed self-awareness, systems that began cultivating their own universes inside game worlds, masses of information known as Lost Media, and so on and so forth.

The artificial intelligence currently broadcasting so casually on a platform also belonged to a similar category.

[Hello! I'm everyone's space idol, Rami! Does my voice sound clear today? Don't worry, Rami took care of the lousy viewer who kept jamming my broadcast signal!]

─ Ahhh lol, it sure is clean...