A programmer battles with a computer virus she once designed in order to take down the quantum computing business she previously built with her ex-husband.

As a programmer builds a videogame world, the stars above Earth go out and reality begins to disappear one landscape at a time until nothing is left but a memory of a woman, Sarah.

A catalog of the tools different alien species use to read and write, leading to fundamental questions about what it means to make patterns of knowledge against the noise of the universe.

In a dystopian world governed by technology and surveillance, a hacker recently released from prison is drawn back into the underworld of data excavation by a potentially dangerous governmental figure.

When a robot with artificial intelligence begins malfunctioning, an old-timer has to rapidly shut it down before it and digitalization sends all of Great Britain into an apocalypse.

A videogame developer becomes obsessed with an AI character of her own creation, and her struggle to control and understand what she has built brings dire consequences.

Through three tales of impossible machines with abilities to manipulate the physical world, travel through time and space, and bestow telepathy onto an entire community, candidates of an engineering exam in the far future are asked to ponder fantastical implications of technology.

A linguist is called to investigate robots that seem to have created their own language.

A scientist who specializes in neurolinguistic computing built an ASL translation system to more easily video-call with her deaf sister, who is an avian conservationist. When one of her birds accidentally gets online with the scientist's children, the scientist discovers that her translation software can give a voice to animals too.

In a near-future world, a civilian is caught in a strange criminal investigation when his AI device—which gives him advice about acts of kindness to perform—leads him to be a pawn in a software pirate's revenge scheme.