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Technology; The Wave of the Future
Topic Started: May 9 2005, 04:29 PM (66 Views)
Isiladura
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In the year 2005, a group of individuals who agreed with the ideas laid down in the sci-fi classic, "The Living Universe," re-organized their currently existing group and renamed it. The soul purpose of this organization was to make the "fiction" of people being able to travel to the stars a reality.

By 2017, they had the beginnings of the first cell ready for beta testing. It was set in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hawaii. By 2025, a second cell had begun construction in the Atlantic off the coast of Iceland. Little did they all suspect that a neuclear fallout would occur and whipe out their dream.

Remenants of the cells still remain, but none of the founders, leaders, or even enthusiasts are left (unless, of course, they are of the vampire community). What technological advances had been made prior to the Great War died with their inventors. The Ghost Writer keyboard--types by itself with dictation; the semi-automatic lazer--beta tested with some police departments for use in the procurment of highly dangerous criminals. The list goes on.

In this day and age, all we have left are some "old fashioned" handguns (uzies, semi- and fully-auto pistols...a few barrettas and 9mms are out there, but they are extremely rare), a good deal of "newer" weapons (such as bean-bag guns, stun guns, tazers, and blasters), and even fewer still of the beta-tested weapons used prior to the war (such as energy blasters, and atomizers). Some have even felt the necessity to go back to primitive weapons such as swords and daggers but have added their own twists (like poison cartridges and laser pistols mounted onto the blade).

Gasoline prices have sky-rocketed. At over $5.00 per gallon, many citizens who drive have traded in their older cars for newer, more efficient technology. Hovercrafts are becoming more en vogue and burn hydrogen gas rather than gasoline. Most of the oil wells in the Middle East have either dried up or been destroyed. A few oil wells remain in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. With the decreased use of oil as fuel and heating, the once rich oil-tycoons find themselves impoverished and turning to other means for income.

For those not interested in the use of Hydrogen, they find that solar energy from the satallites in orbit provide enough power for them. Still others rely on giant windmills and convert the wind into useable energy. The earth provided for her children in the past and she will do so now in these tough times.

Tracking chips are in the backs of people's left hands. As soon as a child is born, the chip is surgically implanted and all the information stored therein: birthday, social security number, eye color, hair color, etc. Police can access a database of information simply by scanning the hand of their suspect. Any information used to apprehend the criminal element may be searched via CODIS in which all the information from all the chips is stored.

By the year 2025 the Military of the United States had mandated that all soldiers be implanted with a lo-jack tracking chip. This enabled them to create smart weapons, thus eliminating friendly fire incidents. The chips worked two fold, no more AWOL soldiers. The chips were implanted just beneath the brain stem by the best surgeons the military could buy, ie. the lowest bidder.

Some implantation was fatal.

BY 2050 the technology was fool proof and the Department of Homeland Security oversaw the implanting of every citizen of the United States.
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