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Aeris lives in a world where technology has quite literally overcome biology. Within hours of birth, people are implanted with a device that combines social networking and constant communication - sort of like the brainchild of Facebook and Apple - to prevent what her society deems the "evils of privacy". Most people have no problem with the devices, openly ignoring the rants and warnings of "pretech" civilians who either refused the neurotechnology or were forced to adapt to the clunkier, older versions. Aeris, however, was taught to think - speculate - on the virtues of a society in which privacy, and therefor the freedoms of it, no longer exist. When everyone is free to do what they want, think what they want, say what they want without fear of lies or secrets, is anyone truly free?
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