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Приложение 3
- Did you read that link I sent you?
- Er, no, not yet.
- You see?
- Look, I'm sharing stuff, I'm trying.
- You can join in more.
- Okay, what does it say?
- It's amazing, like, it's this site that proves that germs don't exist.
- Right.
- Yeah. That's what it says. No such thing as germs. Whole thing, right, faked
by the pharmaceutical industry.
- Right, well, that's bollocks. Don't do that, you'll be joining the Flat Earth So-
ciety next.
- Now that stuff is fascinating.
- Oh, no way.
- Have you read it?
- No, and I never will.
- Come on, that's a bit ignorant, don't you think? How's that going to help any-
one, not reading something?
- You're not saying the world is flat, for God's sake, Ralph, you teach children,
please don't say the world is flat.
- I'm not saying it is, I'm just keeping an open mind. It's an option.
- How? How is that an option? We've been to India. We've travelled halfway
across the Earth. We've seen it. How do you think the horizon curves? We've seen it
from a plane, there's a curve.
- That's what a disc would look like.
- All right, well, you've got GPS in your car.
- Yeah, with a flatscreen.
- The G stands for global.
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- So? Apple computers aren't made from apples, are they?
- That's not even a thi...
- Look, look, I'm not saying. I'm absolutely right, OK? Which means you can't
say I'm absolutely wrong. Except you're never going to stop, are you? God help any-
one trying to contradict you, Dan!
- I swear to God, it's like intelligence is going backwards. We're in reverse. If
it's not the moon landings
or 9/11, it's, I don't know, the Loch Ness Monster! The human race is getting
more stupid right in front of our eyes.
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- Just look at the state we are in. Christmas has been ruined for so many hard-
working families. The collapse of the banks goes on and on. Now they say Hather-
sage is in trouble. For God's sake, my mother has got her life savings in Hathersage.
But they've done it, haven't they, the banks? They've left us completely...
- We've told you before, you really can't use language like that.
- Well, you can censor me all you like, but they swear, don't you? All of you.
When you think of what the system has done to us, don't you swear the roof down?
What do we do, the rest of us normal people? What do we do?
- Normal people? You're a Member of Parliament. You're supposed to have the
answer.
- I think I have, I've got exactly that, because next year we face a general elec-
tion and, God knows, we need to shake things up, don't you think? So I propose, in
order to vote, every British citizen must take an IQ test.
- What?
- You can't say that!
- Oh, she's brilliant.
- I said you'd like it.
- If you score above 70, you can vote. Simple as that.
- Oh, she is outrageous.
- 70's quite low. It's not that bad.
- Are you saying that some people are too stupid to vote?
- No. That's what you say, millions of you, at work, at home, in the pub, you
say, "Take away the vote."
- You say it, Dan. All the time.
- That was you and Brexit, nonstop.
- You say things are too complicated and people are not clever enough. And
you said it, Steve. I heard
you. You said it last week.
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- Oh, right. It's all my fault.
- Some of us have work to do.
- Excuse me! I'm working!
- But he's doing actual, physical work.
- You want another cup of tea?
- No.
- Like it or not, she's got a point. People are thick.
- Hold on. Would you ban me?
- Not if you passed the test.
- Oh, my God! You'd ban me!
- Edith, I don't get it. I thought you were the great anarchist.
- Well, that's Vivienne Rook. She's ripping up democracy. I love it.
- Hold on, though. This isn't real. This isn't legal.
- She's only one MP. She can't actually do it.
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Приложение 5
- I thought this would be nice just the two of us. Hey, now that you're working,
we can be ladies who lunch.
- That's great. Thanks very much.
- Can I take a drinks order?
-We'll just have a look. Give us a couple of minutes?
I want you to explain. Your dad said you offered to pay rent, but there really is
no need, honestly. I've got work until the autumn. Height of Essence isn't pulling out
until October, so there's no emergency. We won't starve. And after that... Well... Well,
maybe you can give me advice. When I went to university, they said accountancy was
a job for life. But now, thanks to your lot, artificial intelligence can do my job in one
second flat. I'm going to be quite literally redundant in every way.
- Will you call me?
- Sorry?
- Will you call me?
- You mean telephone you?
- Yes.
- When?
- Now.
- But you're sitting right here.
- This is why I wanted to have lunch. Will you just phone me? Now?
[PHONE RINGS]
- Hello, Bethany speaking.
- Hello.
- Are you phoning for Bethany?
- Yes.
- What are you doing?
- This is Bethany. Can you hear me?
- Well, you're right in front of me.
- But can you hear me down the phone?
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- Oh, my gosh!
- This is me, on the phone. I had it implanted. My hand is the phone. I can
walk, and talk, cos I'm on the phone, the phone inside my hand. I am the phone. This
is what phones are going to be from now on. I have integrated. Thank you for your
call. Subdermal implants. They charge themselves with motion like a self-winding
watch. And it's on the 22 network. I get signal across 95% of UK mainland, 98 by
next year.
- When I phoned you, it was ringing. You were ringing.
- That's the speaker.
- So small!
- Okay, but... When did you get this done?
- That course in Winchester? I had one finger done every night. I still need to
choose a handset, to phone out. Look.
[PHONE RINGS]
- Hello?
- Hi!
- Okay. But, look, I can't believe you had surgery without telling me!
- Skinplants, not surgery. And I knew you'd be cross. But I'm 18, and you had
that tattoo when you were 18, and it's the same sort of thing. And I wanted to ask
you... Will you do me a favour?
- What?
- Will you tell Dad?
- Oh, sweet...
- Please, will you tell Dad for me?
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- Are you okay?
- I am. I really am. I'm fine. Honestly, I swear, I'm fine.
- There. You can let that breathe for ten minutes. All looking good. I'll come
back and I'll dress them.
- Do you see? These are interaction nodes. If I use this finger, I can open all the
doors at work, no ID. And if I just scan this in the shop, I can pay for anything up to
£1,000. And, look... Dad? Mum? I've just taken your photo. Send, and send. It doesn't
need the sound effect. I just added that because it makes me laugh.
- You promised me they wouldn't touch your eyes. Not after last time.
- That was years ago. Gran's had stem cells in her eyes since then.
- I can't help thinking... Don't laugh. All these power cuts... Well, what would
happen to you?
- Nothing. What happens to you in a power cut? Nothing.
- So, what about your head?
- Can't feel a thing. They inserted the tiniest wafer into my brain. Oh, my God!
Look at the result. Synced this up, no keyboard. I don't need a keyboard ever again.
- You did that by thinking?
- It can't read my mind. Not yet. But the wafer tracks activity in the neural
pathway and micro movements in the retina to predict what I'm thinking.
- But that is reading your mind.
- Let's see where everyone is. There's Aunt Rosie. She's at home. Lincoln's in
school. Lee's not in school. Should be. Where is he? In the park. Don't tell Rosie.
Gran's at home in the kitchen. What a surprise. Let's find Ruby. She's in a bar called
the Marine Tide and she's just bought a bottle of house white for £56.
- It's 4:00 in the afternoon!
- 56 quid for the house white?!
- Oh, my God! How did it go, Beth? How are you? Did it work? Are you com-
pletely synched up now?
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- Yeah, I'm fine. I'm with Mum and Dad, and I've just realised, you're in trou-
ble.
- You should be in college!
- 56 quid?!
- For God's sake, Bethany!
- That is amazing. A little bit like spying. What if I didn't want you tracking
me?
- Well, that's a good question. Can you imagine? What if your father was hav-
ing an affair or something.
- Okay.
- You're in my contacts. That's permission, according to the law.
- But I still don't understand. You can run software like this on a keyboard, so
why did you need the operation?
- I'm trying to explain it in ways you can understand, but the connection is so
much more. While we were talking, at exactly the same time I wondered about the 80
days of rain, where it came from, why it was, what comes next. And I keyed into
satellites just 30 seconds ago, so I can see the course of El Nino and I can tap
into pressure sensors along the Atlantic coast and biometric readings from the
ships at sea. If I put all of that
together, I'm there. I'm inside it. The tide, the depth of the sea and the curl of
the waves within me. And right now, in Charles Street, Pasadena, a 15-year-old girl
called Ephanie Cross has written her first song and put it online. Ah! She's got the
sweetest voice. So, when I combine all of that, it's a joy. In my head, it is absolute
joy.
- She's fallen asleep.
- They own her. The government paid for this upgrade, so... now the govern-
ment owns my daughter.
- But she's happy, I suppose.
- If she was a drug addict and said she was happy, we'd do something.
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- Stephen, we surrounded her with screens from the moment she was born. We
did this.
- I just wish... If I could have paid for it myself, then she wouldn't be
indentured for the rest of her life.
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- I can't see, Celeste! I can't bloody see! You're asking me to take people in, and
every day my eyesight's getting worse, every single day. I'm seeing less and less and
less. It's not the house, for God's sake, it's me!
- Okay, just look into the camera.
- "Diagnosis - macular degeneration, 96% definite." "Please make an appoint-
ment with your nearest health care specialist."
- I can't see any numbers.
- They're tiny. They're at the top of the door there. Look.
- We create a patch out of a single stem cell, and we cultivate that into a layer
of cells, and that gets transplanted into the eye.
- And what's the result? How much eyesight will I have left?
- Oh, you'll be cured.
- I'll be cured?
- That's the plan.
- Cured? To what extent?
- 100%. Macular degeneration is a thing of the past, Mrs Deacon. Ten years
ago, you'd have gone blind.
- Good God!
- That's amazing.
- It's astonishing.
- I've got to point out, there is a waiting list of three years, but we can NHS
fast-track you for £10,000.
- Oh... That's a lot of money.
- It's all the money I've got in the world. That's everything. Everything I was
going to leave to my grandchildren, to my great-grandchildren. Oh, well... Sod them.
Yes, please, book me in. Thank you very much. It's a terrible, terrible world, but I
want to see every second of it.
- That's it. All right?
- I'm not blind! Don't fuss!