The near future. A perfect algorithm controls Germany. "The Cube" lets people live a carefree life, pays everyone a basic income and nips crime in the bud. To do this, it collects data from the population, down to the most intimate details. Predictability has become the greatest virtue, but resistance perseveres. One of the few rebels is 28-year-old Taso. He goes to great lengths to evade surveillance and lives a lonely but content life. That is, until he meets Dalia, who wants nothing more than a life in the beautiful world of the cube, and he falls in love with her.
Bijan Moini talks to the translator of his book "The Cube", Kuan-Yu Chen, and the author Ta-Wei Chi about the themes of the novel: artificial intelligence and the future of humanity, individualism versus conformism, as well as the dystopian and utopian aspects life in the Cube.
