I press the button on my phone, accidentally prompting Siri to life. "What can I help you with?" she asks. I have just hung up with the fertility clinic, advising me this latest round of fertility treatments has failed. All of them have always failed. I feel desperate and out of options and for a moment I appreciate that anyone, at all, is offering assistance. "Go ahead," Siri says. "I'm listening." So I go ahead. "Can you help me get a baby, Siri?!" I wail, "I want a baby! I want a baby, Siri! I want a baby so much! Do you know how I can have a baby?! Help me have a baby, Siri! Please!""I'm sorry," she says, rather curtly. "I do not understand." I don't understand, either. Whenever a...
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