"I don't understand this," said Jon. "Pb?"
"It's the symbol for lead," said Karyn, who didn't happen to know what a petabyte was.
"That doesn't make any sense. I wish it came with an instruction manual."
Jon felt nothing, not even the usual wish-induced sensation of not being able to look straight ahead. "I wish I knew why that didn't work... Gee, thanks. It already came with a manual anyway, I just don't have it. Let me try it...."
"Wait!" exclaimed Karyn. "Just wish that you have the manual right now."
"Naah," said Jon. "I can figure it out. Besides, they wouldn't design a machine so we could do something really dangerous just by accident." He looked up and down for some buttons. "How do I run this thing? Maybe I use voice... or maybe it's some kind of touch screen. Am I supposed to get inside it and press something to change my clothes?"
"It looks awfully narrow," said Karyn. "Besides, there's a hangar inside it. I think it doesn't materialize the clothes on you, it puts them on the hangar and you still need to wear them."
Jon was poking at various places on the screen. If it was a touch screen, he hadn't hit it in the right place yet. "I can't find the controls. Maybe it I use my PC? It said something about a local net. But my laptop's gone!"
"Maybe we all have computer terminals built into our heads," said Karyn. "Why don't you try just asking it something?"
"Can't hurt." Jon pointed dramatically at the machine and said....
