You wake up at 6 AM when your iphone alarm goes off. The iphone reports to the database that you have picked it up via its onboard motion sensor. An advertizement for 10% off your next coffee at 711 appears as the phone boots up, along with text messages your friends had sent last night.
Over some cereal, you ask Alexa if you had any prior plans for the day. Alexa comments that you have a Dental appointment scheduled for 3 PM. You had forgotten about that, good thing you loaded that info onto the cloud. Better tell your boss you plan on leaving work early. An ad for Dental Floss appears in your SMS feed. Irritating, you idly consider turning it off, but doing so would add an extra 25 bucks a month to your phone plan. Not worth the hassle.
You quickly get dressed, and tell Alexa to turn off the Air Conditioning in the house as you leave. You don't want to get another angry letter from the municipal government about wasting energy. They demanded 150 bucks to pay for their "carbon offset", whatever the fuck that is.
You get to your car, a 2030 Ford Focus. You insert your finger into the biometric reader, and the onboard computer automatically confirms your identity. It takes a few seconds though as it needs to double check with Fords biometric database where all your info got stored after buying the car. After a short debate, you choose to sit in the front seat. It doesn't really matter which seat you pick to be honest, there are no pedals or a steering wheel in the vehicle. After programing your destination (the nearby 7-11) the car obligingly starts up, and after prompting you for what navigation software to use you select Google Maps. You have their prime membership which means the car is able to drive 10 MPH faster on average. With the route now set the car drives over to the 711. In the past people would operate the vehicle themselves but this led to countless needless accidents. The modern driverless cars are much more secure and safe.
At the 7-11, you go to purchase that coffee you had gotten the ad for earlier. Some old dude was yelling at the automated register as you were walking in, and you realize he's on the phone with the stores manager (who also is probably managing 7 other stores in the city from his office downtown). Apparently he wants to pay with cash. He must be going senile. People haven't used cash in over a decade. Pouring yourself some coffee, you barely even notice the cameras watching for potential shoplifting. A smart sensor in the pot registers how much you had poured and obligingly prints a ticket. You take the ticket over the register, and after scanning it you pay with your iPhones apple pay in order to get the discount. Cash was a thing of the past too. It could get lost, stolen, or be used for illegal drugs. Having money run exclusively through payment processors is much more secure and safe.
Back in your car, you browse through Google News. Apparently some people running a dark web website dedicated to propagating hate speech had been arrested. Course that wasn't what they were arrested for. Feds decided that using VPN to bypass the biometric locks on the internet constituted "wire fraud" or something. You never understood the appeal of trying to be anonymous online. Some of the elderly like the guy at the 711 reminisce about it from time to time. A quick scan of the rest of the news shows nothing more interesting of note beyond sports and celebrity gossip.
You arrive at work, and after sitting down at your desk you insert you internet CAC card into the e reader. The touch screen lights up with a palm print on the screen and after pressing your hand to it and doing a retina scan with the camera the computer obligingly turns on and connects to the internet. Apparently in the past people used "passwords" to access their computers, but those archaic days are gone and things are much more secure and safe.
Your job is pretty simple. You are a moderator for CNN's discussion boards. Your coworkers are also moderators, though for various other companies. Contract work. Ugh. Its all pretty banal though. One person seemed to have lost their marbles and had made an expletive filled rant about "fake news". After checking the users biometric data and bringing up their address and phone number, you delete their post and foreword the incident to CNN's legal department. They may or may not choose to sue the dude for breaking their terms of service on hateful speech. At a minimum their ISP may put an "inconvenience" surcharge into their next monthly bill. All too the good, that surcharge helps pay for your job after all. The dude better be careful though, too many more incidents like that and the costs of using the internet (and everything is connected to the internet these days) would only go up as the fees pile on. Its why criminals keep trying to skirt around it by using VPN's and fake biometric data after all. Thankfully the FBI works overtime to make sure those people are dealt with. You shoot a quick e-mail to your boss letting him know you are heading out early. He may or may not read it. Its 9 PM in London after all.
Back in your car you head over to the dentist. Its your standard doctors office, with beige walls and a bored receptionist. After paying her with your apple pay you go into the next room and sit down in the dental chair. A female electronic voice urges you to open your mouth wide as the chair hums to life and robotic arms extend out. The chair proceeds with the cleaning. In the past there were people who actually trained to do basic medical stuff like this, but the expense of using real people meant not everyone could get medical services. Thankfully computers and robotics have gotten to the point where even complex surgeries can be done automatically, making medicine in general much cheaper and safe. You always make sure to go to a Dentist that uses Apple software though. You get a discount through your Apple pay, and you swear it doesn't hurt as much as Google operated machines.
With the procedure over you get back into your car and start driving home. You receive a text message from your fridge that the milk had gone sour and that a new bottle was being sent by Amazon Prime. Strange. You had gotten the milk only yesterday. A paranoid part of your brain comments that the Agriculture Department is unhappy with the current price of milk and was doing a dumping of excess product. You quickly banish that thought from your head. Don't want to even think such things, let alone say it out loud. The car might be listening and the last thing you need is your next trip to cost an extra 50 bucks. Better to just think safe thoughts. Keep thinking secure and safe. You smile a bit remembering kindergarten. The teachers just loved that phrase.
Your car parks by your house, and after pressing your finger to the scanner of your Skybell Smart Doorbell, the door obligingly unlocks. Alexa welcomes you home and comments that the Amazon delivery man had been inside to replace the milk and no problems were detected in his brief visit. She helpfully offers to show you the video footage of his stay on your smart TV if you like, but you decline. If there had been any trouble the cameras in the house would have picked it up no problem. You pour yourself a glass of milk and after a brief debate ask Alexa to order you a Pizza and bill it to your Amazon account. It arrives within 20 minutes by drone on your front doorstep. You sit in a corner away from the cameras and eat the entire thing. Last thing you need is for Alexa to see you overeating and notifying your health insurance. Your next copay would suck otherwise.
With the day done you take a shower, dress in your comfy pajamas and lie down to go to sleep. You idly flip through tinder on your phone, seeing if the algorithm had producd any good matches you could pursue. Its such a hassle though. So much paperwork to sign before you can go on a date. You idly wonder if its worth the trouble. You curl up in the fetal position under the blankets and go to sleep. Secure and safe.
Over some cereal, you ask Alexa if you had any prior plans for the day. Alexa comments that you have a Dental appointment scheduled for 3 PM. You had forgotten about that, good thing you loaded that info onto the cloud. Better tell your boss you plan on leaving work early. An ad for Dental Floss appears in your SMS feed. Irritating, you idly consider turning it off, but doing so would add an extra 25 bucks a month to your phone plan. Not worth the hassle.
You quickly get dressed, and tell Alexa to turn off the Air Conditioning in the house as you leave. You don't want to get another angry letter from the municipal government about wasting energy. They demanded 150 bucks to pay for their "carbon offset", whatever the fuck that is.
You get to your car, a 2030 Ford Focus. You insert your finger into the biometric reader, and the onboard computer automatically confirms your identity. It takes a few seconds though as it needs to double check with Fords biometric database where all your info got stored after buying the car. After a short debate, you choose to sit in the front seat. It doesn't really matter which seat you pick to be honest, there are no pedals or a steering wheel in the vehicle. After programing your destination (the nearby 7-11) the car obligingly starts up, and after prompting you for what navigation software to use you select Google Maps. You have their prime membership which means the car is able to drive 10 MPH faster on average. With the route now set the car drives over to the 711. In the past people would operate the vehicle themselves but this led to countless needless accidents. The modern driverless cars are much more secure and safe.
At the 7-11, you go to purchase that coffee you had gotten the ad for earlier. Some old dude was yelling at the automated register as you were walking in, and you realize he's on the phone with the stores manager (who also is probably managing 7 other stores in the city from his office downtown). Apparently he wants to pay with cash. He must be going senile. People haven't used cash in over a decade. Pouring yourself some coffee, you barely even notice the cameras watching for potential shoplifting. A smart sensor in the pot registers how much you had poured and obligingly prints a ticket. You take the ticket over the register, and after scanning it you pay with your iPhones apple pay in order to get the discount. Cash was a thing of the past too. It could get lost, stolen, or be used for illegal drugs. Having money run exclusively through payment processors is much more secure and safe.
Back in your car, you browse through Google News. Apparently some people running a dark web website dedicated to propagating hate speech had been arrested. Course that wasn't what they were arrested for. Feds decided that using VPN to bypass the biometric locks on the internet constituted "wire fraud" or something. You never understood the appeal of trying to be anonymous online. Some of the elderly like the guy at the 711 reminisce about it from time to time. A quick scan of the rest of the news shows nothing more interesting of note beyond sports and celebrity gossip.
You arrive at work, and after sitting down at your desk you insert you internet CAC card into the e reader. The touch screen lights up with a palm print on the screen and after pressing your hand to it and doing a retina scan with the camera the computer obligingly turns on and connects to the internet. Apparently in the past people used "passwords" to access their computers, but those archaic days are gone and things are much more secure and safe.
Your job is pretty simple. You are a moderator for CNN's discussion boards. Your coworkers are also moderators, though for various other companies. Contract work. Ugh. Its all pretty banal though. One person seemed to have lost their marbles and had made an expletive filled rant about "fake news". After checking the users biometric data and bringing up their address and phone number, you delete their post and foreword the incident to CNN's legal department. They may or may not choose to sue the dude for breaking their terms of service on hateful speech. At a minimum their ISP may put an "inconvenience" surcharge into their next monthly bill. All too the good, that surcharge helps pay for your job after all. The dude better be careful though, too many more incidents like that and the costs of using the internet (and everything is connected to the internet these days) would only go up as the fees pile on. Its why criminals keep trying to skirt around it by using VPN's and fake biometric data after all. Thankfully the FBI works overtime to make sure those people are dealt with. You shoot a quick e-mail to your boss letting him know you are heading out early. He may or may not read it. Its 9 PM in London after all.
Back in your car you head over to the dentist. Its your standard doctors office, with beige walls and a bored receptionist. After paying her with your apple pay you go into the next room and sit down in the dental chair. A female electronic voice urges you to open your mouth wide as the chair hums to life and robotic arms extend out. The chair proceeds with the cleaning. In the past there were people who actually trained to do basic medical stuff like this, but the expense of using real people meant not everyone could get medical services. Thankfully computers and robotics have gotten to the point where even complex surgeries can be done automatically, making medicine in general much cheaper and safe. You always make sure to go to a Dentist that uses Apple software though. You get a discount through your Apple pay, and you swear it doesn't hurt as much as Google operated machines.
With the procedure over you get back into your car and start driving home. You receive a text message from your fridge that the milk had gone sour and that a new bottle was being sent by Amazon Prime. Strange. You had gotten the milk only yesterday. A paranoid part of your brain comments that the Agriculture Department is unhappy with the current price of milk and was doing a dumping of excess product. You quickly banish that thought from your head. Don't want to even think such things, let alone say it out loud. The car might be listening and the last thing you need is your next trip to cost an extra 50 bucks. Better to just think safe thoughts. Keep thinking secure and safe. You smile a bit remembering kindergarten. The teachers just loved that phrase.
Your car parks by your house, and after pressing your finger to the scanner of your Skybell Smart Doorbell, the door obligingly unlocks. Alexa welcomes you home and comments that the Amazon delivery man had been inside to replace the milk and no problems were detected in his brief visit. She helpfully offers to show you the video footage of his stay on your smart TV if you like, but you decline. If there had been any trouble the cameras in the house would have picked it up no problem. You pour yourself a glass of milk and after a brief debate ask Alexa to order you a Pizza and bill it to your Amazon account. It arrives within 20 minutes by drone on your front doorstep. You sit in a corner away from the cameras and eat the entire thing. Last thing you need is for Alexa to see you overeating and notifying your health insurance. Your next copay would suck otherwise.
With the day done you take a shower, dress in your comfy pajamas and lie down to go to sleep. You idly flip through tinder on your phone, seeing if the algorithm had producd any good matches you could pursue. Its such a hassle though. So much paperwork to sign before you can go on a date. You idly wonder if its worth the trouble. You curl up in the fetal position under the blankets and go to sleep. Secure and safe.
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