When the doors opened you were so surprised you almost didn’t take off the neural reading crown. The machine couldn’t read…
Your thumbprint was rushed and awkward as you struggled with your phone and the grocery bags; the interest rate was four…
You haven’t slept in six months. Staying awake isn’t your job: the computing fabric lining your skull is in charge of that.
You wake up inside your dream with a thin black chain around your neck leading away from your bed and below your bedroom door. You get…
The patient, his VR goggles on, scratched his nose, and Dr. Jones tried not to show his annoyance. Mostly out of habit: the doctor’s avatar…
Scientists had to sign a new NDA before seeing each new ultrasound of the baby you were carrying. You weren’t, and would never, see them. Nor…
Even the best logging systems sometimes missed a few seconds here and there. It took almost a month for people to…
Her father loved her very much. Her genetically engineered unicorn was very beautiful.
The voice telling you who to kill and where they were more familiar to you than the people across the breakfast table.
Our every action in the real world leaves a smudge of data in the Metaverse, stored long after our death, and if mediums have a long tradition, chatbots had the distinct advantage of the unmediated talk.