Framework of the future," I echoed, letting the phrase hang in the air. The sterile white walls of her office seemed to compress around us, a geometric cage built on the very principles she championed. Her gaze remained fixed on the observation window, perhaps seeing not just the gleaming robots performing their meticulous tasks, but the ironclad logic that had birthed them – a logic that now threatened to define the very boundaries of human existence.

## What will you do?