Three years have passed since this work was presented at the 2019 Tokyo Midtown Award. I no longer have to play the role of a machine, but it is in fact my everyday life spent not as a machine that feels more like science fiction. Like the final scene in “Planet of the Apes”, where we escape from a nightmare only to end up with a feeling of emptiness, my gaze inadvertently keeps turning to vending machines and robots as I walk through the city. The term “future” is a limitless expression, and in a show of respect for the A.I. that will inhabit that future, I decided to become a machine again.