1 . It was raining. I went into a café and asked for a coffee.     1     I was waiting for my drink, I realized that there were other people in the place, but I sensed     2    . I saw their bodies, but I couldn’t feel their souls     3     their souls belonged to the     4    .

I stood up and walked between the tables. When I came to the biggest computer, I saw a thin, small man     5     in front of it. “I’m Steve”, he finally answered after I asked him a couple of times what his name was. “I can’t talk with you. I’m     6    “, he said. He was chatting online with somebody - probably someone he didn’t know - and,     7     he was playing a computer game - a war game. I was     8    .

Why didn’t Steve want to talk with me? I tried     9    to speak to that computer geek (怪人),     10     not a word came out of his mouth. I touched his shoulder, but no     11    . I was unhappy. I put my hand in front of the monitor, and he started to shout, “    12    !”

I took a few steps back, wondering if all those people in the café were looking at me. I    13    , and saw nobody showed any interest.

    14    , I realized that the people there were having a nice conversation with their machines, not with people. They were more     15     having a relationship with the     16    , particularly Steve. I wouldn’t want to     17     the future of human beings if they preferred sharing their lives with machines     18     with people.

I was worried and I sank in my thoughts. I didn’t even     19     that the coffee was bad,    20     Steve didn’t notice there was a person next to him.