Mercy Shelley is the pseudonym of the writer, journalist and futurologist Alexei Andreev, who is known to science fiction fans from the novels “The Web” and “2048”, which have become classics of Russian cyberpunk. In the collection of stories “Networked Environment”, the author again turns to the topic of the influence of high technology on our lives - there is a social network for alcoholics, and the difficulties of meeting girls during an epidemic, and the fight against artificial intelligence that has gone crazy, and even a method of achieving immortality with the help of shrimp.Contains obscene language.