No strawberries; even my valiant balcony plant has given up by now in the face of frosts. Science, yes. Many processors did my bidding in parallel over the weekend.

if he ever told his way home, it was long after, in another country of electrons and equations, the static spark of a screen

We don't have AI now because he left too soon, but there's a spacecraft about to land on Mars that can practically think for itself. That might have made him happy.