Děti Nového světa – Weinstein Alexander (2018)

The collection of stories Children of the New World takes readers into the near future, where technology, computers, social networks, and virtual reality play the most important role, a role far more significant than human interaction and relationships in general. The heroes of the stories live in a utopian world, seemingly perfect, which ensures all physical needs are met, but at the same time creates a dependency on the technological achievements of modern society, where individuals lose contact not only with themselves but also with their loved ones, partners, children, and neighbors, ignoring their frustrations by creating parallel virtual worlds and artificial memories that, in their perfection, try to obscure the bleak reality. Alexander Weinstein, through his stories, addresses the issues of technological development and artificial intelligence, highlighting their addictiveness, boundaries, and weaknesses, capturing the direction in which our society is heading in a small space, and constructing a perfect image of a world that may not be so distant from the current one.