Ish returns to central questions about the nature of humanness using his simple style, the tool of the removed narrator, and, most importantly, as he did in Never Let Me Go a setting in the near future where he uses an aspect of technology as a magnifying glass. If we create a true artificial intelligence, what will it think about to itself? What will it see about us that we do not see ourselves? How will we use it? How will we discard it, as we discard everything that we have no immediate use for?