Eileen Gunn's "Speak, Geek": Man, version 2.1
This very short story sounds like a satire. It is narrated by a genetically tweaked dog - who is now smart, & works as a coder!
Only the company that employs him, Lazy M, is not into programming computers, but programming genome! "Man 2.1" is their upcoming product - now nearing code freeze. And the narrator accidentally finds something called "Project Felix” that is an undocumented feature of Man 2.1 - an injection of some cat genome so men will become a little more free thinking!
If you are not a computer programmer, some of the language might appear geekish. If you are, this still is not a story I could enjoy.
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Speak, Geek, short story, review
First published: Nature magazine, 24 Aug 2006
Rating: C
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