Week 1, Title: Cybervision
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swirlsofpurpleCybervision
No more glasses. No more contacts. No more eye exams.
Say goodbye to the expense and hassle with a Cybervision chip. The insertion of which is simple and painless. With Cybervision you will be able to see the world in crisp, high definition as well as having zoom functionality and night-vision which you can control from your phone.
And unlike laser surgery, Cybervision chips are inexpensive and affective with all ages and against all types of eye-sight problems.
Book your appointment today!
This was the earliest of the Cybervision adverts, from 2035. Due to the low cost of the chips and the high quality of visual capability, sixty percent of glasses and contacts wearers had switched to a chip by 2038. And Cybervision had become a multi-billion dollar company.
Cybervision causes plane crash
A Cybervision chip malfunction caused pilot Mitchel Lo to lose his sight during flight 8601 from New York to Texas on the 4th of May at 4.37am. Co-pilot Andy Rawlins managed to get the plane mostly back under control, resulting in a controlled crash with only minor injuries sustained by passengers.
This was the first instance of a chip malfunction that was publicised. Later it would come to light that there were several earlier malfunctions that had been suppressed, though they were still rare enough to be considered freak accidents.
Cybercore: because we care about your vision
Cybercore (a charity founded by Cybervision) is dedicated to providing free Cybervision chips for all who can’t afford them, wherever they are in the world.
The launch of Cybercore happened in July of 2039, and was thought to be a response to the plane crash two months earlier.
Video excerpt transcript:
Technician supervisor: Did you find the problem with the Lo chip?
Technician: There wasn’t a problem. It’s in perfect working order.
Technician supervisor: Then what happened?
Technician: It looks like an outside source intercepted the signal and gained control of the chip.
In March of 2041 footage was posted on youtube (a video platform of the time similar to today’s U-watch) suggesting that the pilot’s chip had been hacked and Cybervision had knowingly covered it up. Though there was tremendous public outcry and some people had their chips removed, the majority still kept their chips.
The number of new chips being bought slowed down, but Cybervision launched a massive marketing campaign and by the end of 2043 eighty seven percent of people who required visual assistance (and many people who didn’t) had Cybervision chips.
Cybervision! Now in Definition 8! Higher definition than ever before! Get it now!
In 2045 a higher resolution quality was introduced, a small subscription fee had to be paid to receive it. And tens of millions of people paid for it.
Protests break out over new Cybervision tiers as they state they will charge several thousand dollars for chip removal.
In 2046 the subscription for the highest resolution increased in price and new levels were introduced for different resolution quality. The only free one was low resolution and as people couldn’t afford chip removal, many were stuck with low visual capability. And glasses, to survive in the market alongside Cybervision, were by then incredibly expensive.
Cybervision leaves users who can’t pay blind!
By 2050 the subscription fees for every level were much higher and failure to pay resulted in a disconnection of service, which- irrespective of the users pre-chip visual capability- left them blind until the payments were made. Lawsuits were filed; Cybervision’s powerful legal team beat them easily.
Cybervision Life-time! Have your child chipped at birth and save them from the risk of costly fees later!
And then the life-time plan was introduced. It was much cheaper than the other plans. But it required the owner of the plan to be chipped at birth, in most cases meaning there was no way of knowing whether a chip would ever actually be needed. It wasn’t a well-liked plan, but it was a protective measure and people were scared and desperate.
In the years that followed babies being chipped at birth became more and more common. Now, over a century later, we are mere weeks away from a new law being passed. The law states that if a person doesn’t have their child chipped at birth it’s a criminal act of neglect.
Cybervision’s power is so vast that it seems normal, but it’s not. It will hurt the most desperate and needy. And it will do so in the name of making more money.
Now is the time to fight.
No more glasses. No more contacts. No more eye exams.
Say goodbye to the expense and hassle with a Cybervision chip. The insertion of which is simple and painless. With Cybervision you will be able to see the world in crisp, high definition as well as having zoom functionality and night-vision which you can control from your phone.
And unlike laser surgery, Cybervision chips are inexpensive and affective with all ages and against all types of eye-sight problems.
Book your appointment today!
This was the earliest of the Cybervision adverts, from 2035. Due to the low cost of the chips and the high quality of visual capability, sixty percent of glasses and contacts wearers had switched to a chip by 2038. And Cybervision had become a multi-billion dollar company.
Cybervision causes plane crash
A Cybervision chip malfunction caused pilot Mitchel Lo to lose his sight during flight 8601 from New York to Texas on the 4th of May at 4.37am. Co-pilot Andy Rawlins managed to get the plane mostly back under control, resulting in a controlled crash with only minor injuries sustained by passengers.
This was the first instance of a chip malfunction that was publicised. Later it would come to light that there were several earlier malfunctions that had been suppressed, though they were still rare enough to be considered freak accidents.
Cybercore: because we care about your vision
Cybercore (a charity founded by Cybervision) is dedicated to providing free Cybervision chips for all who can’t afford them, wherever they are in the world.
The launch of Cybercore happened in July of 2039, and was thought to be a response to the plane crash two months earlier.
Video excerpt transcript:
Technician supervisor: Did you find the problem with the Lo chip?
Technician: There wasn’t a problem. It’s in perfect working order.
Technician supervisor: Then what happened?
Technician: It looks like an outside source intercepted the signal and gained control of the chip.
In March of 2041 footage was posted on youtube (a video platform of the time similar to today’s U-watch) suggesting that the pilot’s chip had been hacked and Cybervision had knowingly covered it up. Though there was tremendous public outcry and some people had their chips removed, the majority still kept their chips.
The number of new chips being bought slowed down, but Cybervision launched a massive marketing campaign and by the end of 2043 eighty seven percent of people who required visual assistance (and many people who didn’t) had Cybervision chips.
Cybervision! Now in Definition 8! Higher definition than ever before! Get it now!
In 2045 a higher resolution quality was introduced, a small subscription fee had to be paid to receive it. And tens of millions of people paid for it.
Protests break out over new Cybervision tiers as they state they will charge several thousand dollars for chip removal.
In 2046 the subscription for the highest resolution increased in price and new levels were introduced for different resolution quality. The only free one was low resolution and as people couldn’t afford chip removal, many were stuck with low visual capability. And glasses, to survive in the market alongside Cybervision, were by then incredibly expensive.
Cybervision leaves users who can’t pay blind!
By 2050 the subscription fees for every level were much higher and failure to pay resulted in a disconnection of service, which- irrespective of the users pre-chip visual capability- left them blind until the payments were made. Lawsuits were filed; Cybervision’s powerful legal team beat them easily.
Cybervision Life-time! Have your child chipped at birth and save them from the risk of costly fees later!
And then the life-time plan was introduced. It was much cheaper than the other plans. But it required the owner of the plan to be chipped at birth, in most cases meaning there was no way of knowing whether a chip would ever actually be needed. It wasn’t a well-liked plan, but it was a protective measure and people were scared and desperate.
In the years that followed babies being chipped at birth became more and more common. Now, over a century later, we are mere weeks away from a new law being passed. The law states that if a person doesn’t have their child chipped at birth it’s a criminal act of neglect.
Cybervision’s power is so vast that it seems normal, but it’s not. It will hurt the most desperate and needy. And it will do so in the name of making more money.
Now is the time to fight.
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Date: 2019-09-29 10:36 pm (UTC)Great ending line. The structure of this laid a solid foundation.
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Date: 2019-10-02 11:17 am (UTC)Wow! You knocked it out of the park! Brava!
Great to see you again!
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Date: 2019-10-03 07:15 pm (UTC)(I wear glasses too, and that's partly how the idea came about, the potential around an impairment that's so wide-spread it's practically universal).
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