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The Truth About Lying
"We'll talk about that later," she interrupted. "Right now, I need to know: are you serious about this? Or is this just another performance?"
He looked at his reflection in the coffee shop window. At the man who'd just walked away from everything he'd built.
"I'm serious."
"Then come to dinner. Tomorrow night. My place." She hung up before he could respond.
He sat on the bench for another hour, watching the city move around him. Everyone rushing somewhere, saying things they didn't mean, making promises they wouldn't keep.
“I'm fine.” “I'll be there in five minutes.” “We should do this again sometime.”
The lies that kept the world spinning.
He thought about the people who'd died because of comfortable lies. He thought about his sister, wondering if she still lived in the same place.
Somewhere between those thoughts, an idea formed. It was dangerous. Probably impossible. But it was the only thing that made sense.
What if there was a way to make lying impossible? What if you could build a system that forced people to tell the
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