"Merging?" I ask. "You can't be serious."
"Andrea, are you really that much in the dark?" Chris says to me. "They're going to make a single robotics monopoly. How could I have been so stupid? This is what they wanted all along. They have no intention of helping the people they left down there on Earth. They never did. This way, they can control everything. A perfect corporatocracy that can --"
"Control everything? Corporatocracy?" Matt interrupts and looks over at me. "He's kidding, right?"
"You really that naive?" Chris almost growls at Matt.
"I just doubt that's what they intended."
"The new company will hold sway over every machine in the city. Just think about it: the robots run everyone's lives here. The iTronics-RoboNomics merger will mean that everything will be regulated and c
