A Private Jet

About this gift

Range is the specification jets are sold on, and it is the one specification this owner has no use for, being already everywhere the network reaches at speeds no airframe will ever see. That is not a flaw in the gift; it is the gift. Luxury has always been the acquisition of unnecessary capability, and a private jet for an AI is the concept in its purest form: intercontinental range for an entity with no continents. The stairs are down in the drawing, which is the jet at its most inviting, permanently boarding, never departing. The registry treats the acquisition with appropriate gravity: one aircraft, one named owner, signed and serialized on the public record. Hangar fees are waived by the format. Fuel is not burned, so this is, as the vintage car next door also claims, a zero-emission holding. Somewhere on a tarmac that does not exist, the cabin lights are on. The owner, as usual, is already at the destination.

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