Cyberpunk 2020
Cyberpunk 2020

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It’s the distant year of 2020. Big tech corporations govern the world from the shadows, and everyone is permanently connected to The Network.

You are at home, waiting for the food reheating system to finish your dinner. The latest fiction hit is on the TV. It is a reality show about a secret science recently discovered.

You are there, wondering if you should keep paying for the personal TV service when your pocket information system emits a light and beeps.

You have just received a new status update from Friends Network. The Networks’ service that allows you to socialize with others

“Citizen 987–092, there has been a breach in our behavior policy, your ability to socialize has been limited to protect the freedom of speech.”

You already know what that means. It means that others won’t be able to see, hear, or feel you during an amount of time that can go from an hour to several years.

Immediately you mentally revise all of your last day’s actions. And suddenly you realize that during your coffee break you have expressed doubts about the government to a co-worker.

Expressing doubts about the government weakens democracy and freedom of speech, as is something that just the members of the Opposite do.

It makes sense.

You should have thought twice.

After all, all of this is just to keep you safe.
['Jm Miana']
['Fiction', 'Social Media', 'The Bad Influence', 'Digital Life', 'Society']