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The Reality Of Reality And Technology Essay

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I was next. Standing on my own in the waiting room I waited patiently, hoping my turn would never arrive. I now regret taking a VR A level, but at the time, it was what I wanted. “Next, George Zelhof.” As if in a trance I walked towards the door, nervousness gripped my and I began to shake. The door opened. A smile greeted me. “No need to be nervous,” a voice welcomed me. I shook it off. The examiners crowded around me. I screamed…… I was not George Zelhof. I was now Max. Just Max. A world was in turmoil, in confusion, in disarray. The sick littered the streets and the deceased rotted on the pavement. Most would agree, to join them was a blessing. Plunged into a world of terror we had lost our sanity. We were looking at a horror movie in first person, a dystopian novel where no-one could think. The veil between imagination, reality and technology had been removed. Imagination, we now realised, was never ours to control. The remote to reality had been turned over to Lucifer, and he was enraged “Just because something is happening in your head, doesn’t mean it isn’t real.” A while ago that quote would have been laughed at. Now, if anyone was sane enough to read it, it would not be a laughing matter. It all started with a dream, a dream that turned into a nightmare; a nightmare that became reality, or what was left of it. And this dream, I set it into action. Anyway, that was what I was told.
A cyber-attack had been launched this year: 2090, a year which technology had

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