"When did the pandemic become endemic?", part 8 of the series "After The Pandemic. A Fictional Story" by Karin Sawetz
Almost one year has passed since Naomi invited her daughter Joyce and granddaughter Sarah to her home and farm, where she plants innovative new garden fruits at the high-tech glasshouse. The architecture of the Grand Palais-like building cites late 19th, early 20th century Viennese Modernism and the style of Otto Wagner. Three generations of women who are living in the time now as contemporaries but witness the presence from different life angles due experiences collected under politically and socially constantly changing circumstances. The Christmas surprise of one of the last meetings, the snowball AI had become already part of Joyce's life journey before the mid-40 years old even knew that there exists an especially for her from the friends of her mother developed artificial intelligence program. The AI - called after its first appearance 'Snowball' - was enabled by Joyce for Sarah and Naomi as a practical family communication tool which takes part of the conversat