2579 CE: The 97th AI Winter has just begun. The migration of the office furniture back to its warehouses begins, to await a new dawn when someone tries to make metaverses happen again in a year or so. 5% of the planet's usable land area now warehouses startup office furniture. No-one has made new office furniture for 300 years; no-one even knows how. Not even the chatbots know how.

(Slightly) more seriously, I wonder how much repeat business they get. Have some items been in and out multiple times? Do they keep a database of the history of each item? In the future, will there be a collector's market for Aerons with interesting pedigrees?