Happy Pills_The Most Valuable Commodity_A Day at Work in the Year 2070: PANDEMIC_The Wooden Door
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Happy Pills
It was nighttime. The group of friends were still dancing as they walked along the sidewalk, having just left the discotech. They were all impeccably dressed in the latest fashion, having all shopped together that day. It’s what they did every Saturday - brunch, shopping, dinner and dancing. It was permanently on their schedules. A schedule that was made for them. In stark contrast to their easy, carefree mood, spherical drones buzzed quietly around them in the night sky. Each of them the size of a bowling ball, the street lights reflecting off of their shiny surfaces. It wasn’t that the frie...
The Most Valuable Commodity
“Sell.” Sheila accentuated her monosyllabic advice by pointinwww.onedoor.ccg her right index finger directly at Fontenot. “Robotic AI technology is evolving rapidly, and your algorithms won’t be state of the art much longer.” It was advice Fontenot could not take lightly, for in addition to being his friend from college and wife of his sister, Sheila was also one of the shrewdest financial analysts in the Valley.But she was neither an inventor nor an industrialist, and Fontenot wasn’t about to accept the limitations of her vision. “My algorithms are proprietary,” he explained, “and nobody else is even a yea...
A Day at Work in the Year 2070: PANDEMIC
Susan thought she heard her name being called as she briskly walked down the street. Thick condensation was coming from a gap in her mask that was covering her mouth and nose. It was very cold this Saint Paul Monday morning. Single digits and dropping was what the weather man said. Susan heard her name being called “Susan… wait up!” Susan smiled under mask as it was her best friend Angie who worked at Friends Fidelity Insurance with her. Angie was running in her wolfish looking mukluk boots. No dainty tap, tap, tap of girlish flats was to be heard. It was more like plop, plop, plop. Angie ...
The Wooden Door
It was the year of 3080. Technology had become so advanced that many people of the city of Zena were already ¼ of a computer of maybe ½ of a computer if they were rich enough to afford it. About 80 years ago scientists had made a breakthrough discovery that the human body could be fused with machinery to make it stronger, faster, studier and overall more reliable.Since that time, many people had either had a limb replaced with technology or had decided to dress themselves in suits of armor. The suits of armor weren’t as effective as fusing yourself with the technology, but it would do for the...