"Just after the chip had been implanted, she had a nasty infection and the bad memories were hard to get rid of. She was one of the first to get the health chip, and at that time, there was little awareness of the allergic reactions that some show to copper."
"Obviously, the system could go wrong anytime, but the activation was one of the most dangerous moments, and everything had worked perfectly."
"Since the government banned national flights within southern Norway from 2040, the trains have been taking most of the passengers from Oslo to Bergen, Stavanger and Trondheim."
"They kept the traditional games of the playground on top of digital floors,
where the kids could learn interactively about the natural environment they are in contact with. Their parents were enjoying the day doing their favorite activities without concerning about their children safety."
"My vision is to introduce the use of VR in every day life. My implant is so small that it can be injected into every single fingertip without issues."
"My car is slowly moving around the colourless streets, while I look through the streets of New York in the year 2008, I don’t recognize any of them. That’s maybe not weird at all, you don’t need that information, I can always find the street names on google and just tell your car to go there, no need to remember the names. It’s better to use your brain activity for something useful."
"These scans would be able to determine the identification of all the passers-by as all mobile devices and implantables in Plexia had compulsory geolocation. This meant advertisements could use one’s own image to sell products and law enforcement knew where every resident was at any given moment and what they looked like."
"Nowadays, every food package has a QR code linked to a smart sensor measuring the bacteria rate of the food inside and giving as a result the quality and edibility of it."
"“How exciting”, he thought “that must have been a great time to live in. Now, everything works automated, nobody needs to talk to each other anymore. No need to ask for the way or complaining about some idiot cutting my lane."