Natalya Alekseevna Fierce (nicknamed Tashka), in her thirteenth year, graduated from school and, as an intern, went to work at the Novosibirsk Institute of Cybernetics, in a laboratory developing the second generation of artificial intelligence. But this story is not only about Tashka. It's also about a giant city under the Antarctic ice. About artificial intelligence and their difficult relationship with programmers. About genogrammists and their fight against hereditary diseases. About a strange signal coming from outside the solar system. About Mars, but without apple trees. Although, a little about apple trees too. This book is about the future, which, of course, will be completely different from what is described here. Therefore, I think we can say: the book is still about the present. Despite the fact that it is about the future.