Perspectives

Asleep - PART1

It's the year 2095.

Technology has been further developed so people can have a balance between social life and education.

People are only allowed out within government allocated safe hours to socialise and return for education where they are plugged into Comatose Educative Stimulation Programme (Or CESP) pods.

Daylight is rare and danger increases as night falls. The environment has deteriorated so rapidly over the last century that resources are slim for even those of the 19 billion world wide population who can afford it.

With the collapse in nuclear power after its uncontrollable potential was realised, the Land and Sea became tainted with leaks and spills all across the globe.

Pollution is so high that the only way to go outside undamaged, is to cover every piece of skin in an air-filtering cream which prevents pollution from entering the body through pores, to cover all showing skin with a highly reflective coating agent to prevent extreme damage from solar rays entering through the ozone, to wear nasal masks much like gas masks to filter out dirt in the air and prevent contraction of illness, disease, parasites and cancers.

Everything has been affected by the radiation, mutating and creating new species, all of which are rampant for food, even if said food takes the form of people. Thanks to technological advances, humans are safe if they abide by the rules.

Due to the solar rays, no living thing can go out in sunlight without protection. At night, beasts that exceed the extent of imagination roam through the towering cities.

This is why its only safe to go out in the daylight.