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Chapter 108: The Digital Divide

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Emma experienced her first genuine battle with technology when the family's smart home system began responding to her voice instructions in unexpected ways. Her increasingly complex vocabulary had perplexed the AI assistant, who couldn't tell the difference between her scientific enquiries and actual demands for action.

"The house thinks I want to order seventeen varieties of beetles when I'm just practicing pronunciation for my insect classification project," Emma said, placing her hands on her hips in a move that reminded Grace of her own angry look.

The technology snafu had uncovered an unanticipated flaw in their meticulously organised domestic systems. James found himself fixing not only software issues, but also the confluence of his sister's rapid intellectual development with their daily digital infrastructure.

"I never programmed the system to handle a five-year-old discussing quantum mechanics," James said, reading through error logs that read like a list of Emma's various i
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