《Humanity’s Next Steps》Don't Forget To Take Your Nanites
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Don't Forget To Take Your Nanites
Jane Jones made breakfast for her teenage son, Jake, while he watched a holotube.
Jake switched it to a local news broadcast ...
"This just in … Rebecca Chang reporting...
"We have another mass shooting happening downtown. Shield officers are deploying jammers to cordon off a parameter in hopes of preventing further shocks. They've flown drones in the area to detect the suspects, but they keep crashing. Authorities advise all civilians in the vicinity with upgrades Level 4 or higher to enter structures marked for zero penetration. Medics are on the way with emergency Faraday protection pods.
"We have Tim Davis operating our sky drones ..."
"Rebecca, the suspects barricaded themselves. They're firing powerful pulses. We believe they modified robot hunter sport rifles to attack cybernetic implants."
"Tim, do you mean they modified the rifle's pulse to target implants made for humans?"
"It seems so Rebecca. We've seen this pattern before. The hunter rifles are perfectly legal to own, but their modifications are not. This is the twelfth mass EMP strike this month downtown. The federal government recently declared EMP attacks a national epidemic."
"Thank you, Tim, please keep us updated."
"Here, with me, I have Dr. Eugene Smart, a retired defense industry research cyberneticist. He's author of the just-released book—'From Bullets to EMPs, Will the Violence Ever Stop?'
"Doctor, what can we do about this? Historically we stopped bullets with body armor and shields. These EMP strikes saturate the environment. People feel powerless to stop them."
"It certainly seems hopeless, Rebecca. I've been advocating a ban on the personal storage of hunter rifles. And to require public tracking of their pickups and returns. But some lawmakers claim it violates a constitutional right. Stating citizens require defense against a potential robot invasion. A ridiculous notion ..."
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"So that's it, doctor? For every attack, it's the luck of the draw? We must learn to hide?"
"Well, not exactly, Rebecca. I'm also a consultant for a private research lab. We've entered human trials. If all works well, we should have a countermeasure soon."
"How does it work, doctor?
"Well, I can't disclose all the technical details, but once ingested …"
Jane shut off the holotube.
"Mom, I was watching that. They were gonna talk about us."
"Jake, honey, it's only the news. They won't mention us to protect our privacy. You need to finish your breakfast and don't forget to take your nanites. Remember what the doctor said …"
"Yeah, I know mom—five times a day to keep the EMPs at bay."
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A Taste for the Finer Things
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8 82A Simple Bar In The Multiverse
I'm Lucas, 30 years old and single. I went to drink with some friends that day and when I was walking home, I found some weird glowing door on a wall on which I've never seen anything before. I'm a bit ashamed to say that I instantly tried to open it. Behind it was that weird silver light which I also touched with my bare hand. Don't judge me! I was very drunk. It has nothing to do with my intelligence... Anyway, I seemed to have been transported in a magical room and an invisible female entity has just just given me an offer: Turn this bar into the best bar in the universe where you'll work forever. In exchange I would get great powers with great responsab... Wait! That's spiderman. Anyway, great powers and unlimited lifespan. I think I'll say yes... Follow the story of Lucas, the manager of the Simple Bar, while he turns this seemingly innocuous bar into one that becomes known in the entire Multiverse. Or at least in a big part of it. I mean, the Multiverse is virtually infinite, so... A part of the story will take place in the Divine Realm of the Wanderer's Realms from my first novel 'The Life of a Goddess and a Fox in the Cultivation World '. I will post 1 chapter every week at 7 p.m. EST on Saturday.
8 173Mahou Shoujo Reincarnation
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8 135Origin of the Best Void Magician
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8 86Safe at Last
In the world of Lorenzo Davis', he is very paranoid. Not being able to trust anyone, he thinks that everyone is out to get him. Being a CEO, he's not only a paranoid narcissist, but a perfectionist. With having to get his way, he opposes anyone who says otherwise to his ideas. If they don't agree with him, then they're against him. One of the things that Lorenzo makes sure of is that no one knows his other lifestyle. The life he only lives at nighttime. Of course if everyone were to find out, that would not only damage his reputation, but his enemies would surely benefit from it. So Lorenzo does the one thing he knows how to do best, push everyone away. Overtime, he becomes cold, and dark. With no friends or family to speak to, he puts all of his energy into his business. He lives with the mentality that everyone will always leave him. That's until the eighteen year old Aurora Wright comes along into his life seeking a job.Aurora has always had a hard life. Dealing with the murder of her father, her abusive mother, being pimped out by her own mother, to having to raise her siblings all the while being a high school senior, would be tough on anyone. Aurora has tried her hardest to get a better life for her siblings but was unable to because of their mothers cruel ways. So being the older sibling, she had to figure out ways to make money. Some of those things she wasn't proud of, but she did it in order to provide for her, and her siblings. Throughout her entire life, she's only had help from her best friends family. So when they tell her that they've found a job for her, it's not something she expected. She also didn't expect to become the personal assistant to one of the richest, ruthless men in America with a secret that could bring down his entire corporation.
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