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Lily
Matteo remembered me when I called him about working for David.
He agreed to meet in person at his office. Most people didn’t want to meet. But if you wanted to understand someone properly, you needed to sense all their pheromones and micro-gestures. Unfortunately, the convenience and ubiquity of AI and Holo overrode this truth. Maybe that was something the old found different? It probably made things hard for someone like David.
I was lucky that my job at the Department of Resettlements involved face-to-face meetings. I could make better decisions. But there was always a reluctance from our clients to an initial meeting; they usually preferred Holo. However, we insisted on a meeting and, almost without exception, their views changed afterward. We had no problems with them retur
