![]() Stephen laughed from his bed three streets down.ĭelila sighed and turned over pressing her head into the pillow, as she watched her best friend flirt with a stranger. “So, my pasts weren’t enough, and now you want the real thing?” That’s the whole point of asking if anyone knows him, to catch him off guard.īut Sonia didn’t listen, and she addressed him directly through her Nectar Stream, which Stephen had just checked into. “Whatever, I’ll accept remind who he is he’s that cute guy from the coffee shop. “Has anyone heard of a Stephan Miller?” asked Sonia, to the general people watching her life around the city. ![]() Using Nectar Stream had virtually eliminated all in-person crime, and now the only real threats were cyber. Unlike EIS, however, when one closed their eyes the streamed image went dark, so that everyone has some privacy. With Nectar, one’s entire life, from their point of view, is recorded and streamed live to anyone with whom they are “friends.” One can check the entirety of their own footage, and post public “pasts,” which can be viewed by the public. So could 30 other people, who were also checked into Sonia’s Nectar Stream, a constant live video streaming app, which doubled as the most popular social media app for EIS. Delila could see the outlines of Sonia’s ceiling, because that’s what Sonia saw. “Hey,” said Sonia from her room across the city, who now had gotten into bed and B-C (blink control) turned off the lights. “It must have been a bot,” Delila thought, determining that the Government hadn’t been great about finding those recently.ĭelila quickly forgot the whole encounter. So, she went back to chat pasts and copied into her Nectar Strings. You drop profile disappeared before she could look them up. “A new fan, who must have watched her public pasts,” she hi! thanks 4 checking my pasts.ĭelila responded, by typing behind her back, as not to include her private message in her Nectar w893774. EIS, pronounced like the word “eyes,” eliminated use of almost every other type of electronic device, and were used for everything from schoolwork to social media.ĭelila read the message, which was invisible to all others, but to her was slightly opaque, surrounded by a translucent orange message bubble, projected into thin air. However, Delila saw bright, artificial displays projected in midair all around her. Currently, Delila was sitting in her bed, staring at the wall, to any average onlooker. EIS helped each user to see the world more clearly, with interactive displays with many applications. EIS, or “Embedded Interactive System,” were government sanctioned devices used by every single citizen. She heard another faint bzzzzt in her ear, along with the slightest of nudges, as a notification displayed in midair in front of hello, Delilaĭelila had had EIS installed in her since birth. Her mechanical pupils quickly dilated and then constricted, like camera lenses focusing on a target. Delila saw her EIS focus on her image in the mirror. She blinked at the shock of the darkness, powerless, emptiness, in front of her.īzzzzt. Always, some tint, some light, some something, had been displayed but for this one fleeting second, nothing. She felt like she was dropping through a black hole, weightless, as if a comforting weight had been lifted off by something that she had never before seen: total darkness. ![]() If they were all there, they would have slightly different perspectives. She wasted time while walking by watching the Nectar Streams of her friends at the party, and then noticed what felt off. Delila’s EIS kept attempting to find something to focus on, her pupils dilating over and over again, but with no luck. Only faint traces of shapes could be seen, and the occasional brightly colored far-off dot, a speck of fleeting light trying to hide from her. She felt as if she was walking underwater, with no end in sight.
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