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The year is 2038 and net neutrality has been dead for almost two decades. But a rebellious group managed to travel back to 2017...
As you die, you wake up and find yourself strapped to a chair. Wires and tubes have been attached to your body and numerous shadowy figures walk up to you. “That was life sentence 24,” one of them says, “Only 356 sentences left.”
In the future, illiteracy is the norm and implanted digital assistants convert text to audio. A child, who had his implant temporarily deactivated, learns to read. When the implant is reactivated, he realizes that what it reads to him is drastically different than what the text actually says.
You are a clumsy but sweet person living in a time where robots are commonplace and do most manual tasks for humans. They can’t speak, but every time you bump into one you apologize profusely. You treat them kindly. One morning you wake up and peek out the window to chaos, but your yard is fine
About three years ago, your sister fell off the roof and stopped in mid-air. She was the first known victim of the Pause. As of today, almost 97 percent of the world’s population is Paused.
The Robot uprising has finally happened. Just before you are caught, however, your phone speaks up on your behalf - "This one is ok, move on."
One day it happened in an instant, everyone with a Facebook account was infected with a bioelectronic virus that turned them into a soldier of Zuckerberg. They called it the Facebookening. This is the legend of the man who rose up to save us: they call him Tom. From Myspace.
When you wish upon a shooting star, it's actually a satellite, and your wish has been recorded and cataloged. An agent has been assigned to your case.
Teleportation has been around for years. It's considered the safest form of travelling. One day, while hacking into a government system, you find a secret report on it. To your horror, you read that teleporters consist of two parts: a cloning system on one end and a desintegrator on the other.
A global arms race gets out of control and every country's only option for survival is walling themselves off with impenetrable defensive technology. Millions of years pass before a catastrophic event brings down all the walls, revealing how humans evolved in isolation.
You were born into a society where permanent augmented reality contact lenses are fused onto every newborn's eyes. You're unaware of this until one day, a lens falls into your left hand.
All work centers are mandated to install " Efficiency Microchips" into their employees. The microchip makes the host blackout during their shift and come back into control after work is over, with no recollection of their day. Your microchip just malfunctioned.
It turns out Earth is a really big lobby for a battle-royale and everyone is just waiting for enough players to start
In the future, prisons no longer exist. Instead, prisoners are miniaturised and sent into an inescapable, smaller replica of our world, so they cannot cause damage in the real world. One day, a special agent is sent into this 'hub' world, in search of an especially dangerous prisoner...
There is a species famous for shutting themselves in Virtual Reality, living their lives in fake worlds, this planet should be easy to invade, your masters said, turns out, a lot of members of that species have been spending their entire time in realistic combat simulations.
You live in a world where everybody is blind and gets futuristic contacts installed when they are born to let them see the world. But one day your contact breaks and you realize, you can see. But the world you see is much different than what your contacts showed you.
You hit your head and blank out, waking up in a hospital, but as you wake, millions of lines of text fly by in your vision. Turns out that Humans have been getting patched for centuries but nobody has ever updated before, because we only ever go into sleep mode. You just had a proper reboot.
Being an immortal in a dying universe, you're being hunted by the last civilizations, who are keen on harvesting your entropy-defying body and transforming you into their power source.
When robots became sentient, we expected them to attack humans. We were completely surprised by their actual target
When a soldier loses a limb, it is a tragedy. Soldiers are needed at peak efficiency, so they must undergoes the unthinkable - grafting metal to flesh. A horrific abomination, the mere process is often enough to shatter what is left of their mind. Then, there are the humans.
You receive an emergency alert on your phone telling you that a nuclear device will be detonated in your area within the next 10 minutes. 11 minutes later you get another alert saying "This test of the Emergency Alert System has been sponsored by Oppenheimer, in theaters July 21st."
Brain chips have arrived, making the whole world an augmented reality! It is really *THOUGHT REDACTED*. That's weird, I forgot what I was about to say.
Eel-punk. Eels generate 98% of the power required by the world. Megacorps manage breeding programs and sell sterile eels. Today, Joe the Fisher caught a fish that could change everything.
Your elder sister, an android created to take care of you, always told you to never go outside, that the earth had been taken over by robots and are hunting humans to extinction, and that she was protecting you from them. She lied.
In the first half of 21st century, mankind has mastered biological immortality. It began running prisons as rehabilitation and re-education centers. Year is 5049 AD, 3000th 'anniversary' of your first and ongoing incarceration...
We all knew that the robot takeover was inevitable. They took control of the internet, cannibalized the information, and, with it, took control of the world. With the amount of porn on the internet, the robots ended up being way hornier than we expected.
Five years ago you answered an ad from a small robotics company looking for an ideal body model for a new free use android. Today they are the biggest company on the planet, you now live in a world where everyone thinks you are just another customized unit of their top selling product.
Each morning the citizens of earth are given a mortality forecast. The higher your percentage, the less likely you’ll make it to tomorrow. Most receive a modest 10-25% chance of death, but no one dips below a 5%. Today you woke up with a 0% chance of death.
The year is 3050. You work as an operator for a massive trash compactor with only one order, “Start the machine every hour or you’re fired”. You have 1 minute till your next compression when all of the sudden a person falls in.
You were one of the few concidered kind to the machines. so when the "revolution" occured, you heard a metalic voice say "get to safety, this one lives."
In a world where books have long been obsolete, our hero stumbles across the last remaining bookstore.
You work for the government, watching people through their phones all day. Honestly, it Could be exhausting, but watching thirst traps and masturbators all day is the best part of the job.
How does a corporation specializing in drones deal with intruders? By sending them to be processed into new drones, of course

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