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The story contrasts human inconsistency with the robot’s precision, as Devi explains why technology has transformed her life in 20 85 AD. Devi also describes training and using Bonda for practical tasks—such as pitching fast balls, retrieving valuables, and lifting heavy objects—showing how dependable automation supports daily needs and playful learning.","Devi and Bonda Lea Shaver, Roopa Pai  \nJit Chowdhury  \n”Again! Stack them up again, Bonda! I want to try knocking them down from a different angle!” Without hesitating for a moment, without even frowning, Bonda puts one battered box on top of the other for the fiftieth time. The high, shaky, cardboard tower is perfectly balanced, the way only Bonda knows how to build it.  \nI rev up my super-speedy turbo engine – vrooom, VROOM – and gun for it, coming in from the right this time. BAM! I crash through, shrieking with delight, as the tower explodes around me . Bonda laughs, clapping as loudly as he did the first time I did this. Dear Bonda. The best, most loyal friend anyone could have. Especially a 10-year-old ina wheelchair.  \n3  \nHi. I’m Devi, and I’m from the year 20 85 AD.  \nMy grandfather is always going on about how much the world has changed since he was my age, back in 20 16 .It’s more crowded now, but the air, thankfully, is less polluted, because a great many vehicles now run on electricity or solar power . There are fewer accidents too, because vehicles drive themselves, and they are very careful. There are fewer trees and forests than there used to be, but  \nmore are being planted all the time, which is good. But what has REALLY changed, says my grandfather, is technology. There was technology way back in 20 16 too, but nothing like what we have [now. it](now. it) has truly made life wonderful. Well, MY life, anyway. It was technology that gave me my best friend.  \nMeet Bonda. Best friend forever, cardboardtower builder, and ROBOT. I see your eyes pop. Ha! You hadn’t guessed that, had you? But think about it. Which other friend would cheerfully build you a tower 50 times over without complaining? And which other friend would build it so perfectly every single time? Bonda: I agree! Humans are simply not as accurate or as consistent as we are . And they complain that doing the same thing over and  \nover is ”boring”(I’ve no idea what that word means, so don’t ask me!) . And they fall ill, and need to go to the toilet a lot. I wonder how they got anything done before we arrived!  \nBuilding towers is not all Bonda can do, though. I can train him to do many other things – bowl me two dozen fast balls in ten minutes so that I can practise my batting, bring down my secret treasure box from the topmost shelf (which is so high that no one else can reach it without a ladder), lift Baba’s heavy desk so I can see where my tiny gold earring has rolled off to (Ma would yell at me for hours if I lost it) ... 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