Makai Máté - Az Atlantis The rise

Máté Makai is a cunning literary hacker. His dystopian fantasies encode the reader into a frighteningly fresh reality. Each of his nine short stories manipulates a technical future that seems very possible. How does the community work in unexpected situations, during natural and social disasters? Its characters face ethical dilemmas such as digital exclusion, political and familial aspects of immortality, grief and sexuality, ideological fashions, terror, relationship loneliness, the media possibilities of programmable life and religion. Our questions of civilization echo from the edge of the abyss, where the air is surprisingly good without a mask.

- My father is busy at home - he says.
- Again? - The ticking means that there is, or will be, some money in the state administration. In the days following the last ticking, we woke up to a blinding morning light phenomenon.
- There's something with the Atlantis contracts.
- What do you have to do with Atlantis? It's not even headquartered here. But in Ireland.
- We are still talking about a local company. The connections, the engineers, the designers. But my father didn't say much.
- But what?
T. thinks, maybe about the next step, maybe something else. It's screwed up.
- Rumors are circulating that the entire server park of Atlantis actually went down. There were shading problems.
- How is that possible?
- The systems were up and running quickly, and there were no competitors. There was a special non-operation agreement with the Eastern powers, China and Russia, but 98% of them are still operating.
My sister then told me that if she failed the social media profile system she had been working on for years, she would rather move to China. According to my father, go ahead, but be prepared to wear a mask for the rest of your life.