You sat in your apartment with a small, black disk in your hand. You purchased it for a hefty price, the disk being an expensive product in the market in the year 2067.

It was a virtual partner that you could carry around in that disk. It could talk, serve, and feel the world around it, using a static-electric field to it. It had settings that allowed it to have a mind of its own, but rarely did any of the buyers use that setting...

As you switched it on, the disk flashed and flickered a hologram of a bold woman, staring blankly before it.

"Greetings, user. I am Alia, your personal partner and assistant. How can I serve you today?"

You had to choose and tweak the settings and appearance in the disk manually through its dial and keypad. So, what would you put? The options were almost endless..