The Veldt: EyePhone
The terrifying death of the Hadley couple was shocking to everyone across the country. The murderers were soon caught by the police. And it turned out to be their son and daughter. EyePhone, of which the Hadley couple were the first users, helped a lot in solving the case. After the notion of wearable electronics was brought up, people are trying to make the digital world more approachable by making Google Glass and using AR technology. A Scandinavian company took a step further and successfully invented electronic contact for your eyes. EyePhone looks just like a normal contact, with innumerable circuits and a chip only visible under a microscope. It is super biologically compatible and gets energy directly from the blood. With an additional signal emitter and receiver behind your ear or in your pocket, the digital world will perfectly blend with the real world right in front of your eyes by projecting digital images and information onto your eyeball. More than that, it will record everything happening and upload it to the cloud drive. It is this service that helps the police solve the case. But opponents of EyePhone raise serious concerns about the recording, claiming that the service was “excessively encroaching on personal privacy and turning it into an even more lucrative business than back in the 2020s.”
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas: Emotion Generator
Check out this new invention of the mighty scholars of Omelas! We have made some “improvements”for you to be free from that you-know-what basement. And now, you don’t have to be in that filthy place to reinforce your cognition of happiness and pain. Introducing the emotion generator. Inspired by the Penfield Mood Organ in the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” by Philip K. Dick, the scholar came up with an idea of a machine applying artificial intelligence and algorithms to learning and generating human emotions(we all know it’s merely electric signals), which later came into reality. The EG looks just like a VR helmets, but it can do better than that. You just have to stick the micro-generators attached to the helmet onto your head. And the EG will emit currents of the electricity bound to your brain cortex, generating even more real feelings than standing in that basement by yourself. The EG is also a good educational tool for your children to make them realize the value of complicity in happiness and pain.
WARNING: POTENTIAL DANGER OF ADDICTION. UNDER PARENTAL GUIDANCE ONLY.
The Plague: The Reverter
Deep in the shielding of the Emergency Management headquarters, some petrified bodies were secretly saved for research. The well-suited scientists were working on a machine called “the Reverter.” As is known, the element silicon has more protons than carbon. To convert the petrified silicon-based human body rock back into carbon-based flesh, the scientists were inspired by controllable nuclear fissions. They invented “the Reverter” which would initiate a nuclear fission chain reaction and split the protons into desirable nuclei—namely carbon nuclei. Rather than saying it was similar to a nuclear reactor, the reverter itself was a reactor because it would release energy and radiation during the transition, which implied the underlying problems of this machine. The radiation was hard to clean, and the outcome of the reverting process tended to be too varied. Some of the protons were lost in the process. As a result, the carbon nuclei were incomplete or were turned into another element. Unfortunately, the virus was way ahead of the scientists and found its way inside of the shielding. All the dwellers, officials, and scientists were petrified, and the machine was nowhere to be found.