Desire by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-23T04:00:00+00:00

Virtual Reality

A short story by Alex Palange

Chapter I

Year 2072

I was born in 2036. I graduated in 2060 with major Virtual Reality science. With that major, it wasn’t hard for me to find a really good job and I did. I bought my own apartment. It was big enough to fit all machines that I need to create a luxury virtual world. The life for my generation was simple. You just needed a big enough space to fit all the necessary equipment to create your virtual world and comfortable bed and chair to sit and enjoy it.

I was happy with my life, but I still remembered how my father always told me that the biggest problem with our generation was virtual reality. From the moment I started building my own virtual world, he told me that my generation was missing out on the best part of life: actually going out to meet people and truly finding the one. I was a member of the last generation in which people had been born the “regular” way. The world had changed rapidly; everything became part of virtual reality. Every person in the world had created her own virtual world and he could invite anyone to join her there.

My father was one of the creators of the virtual world but he grew to regret his creation. I remember his words, “If you live in a dream, nothing is clear, nothing is real; I don’t know how people will have kids. Maybe this is the end of humanity…” but scientists provided an answer to satisfy the human need for sex and a solution to the pregnancy problem. Most kids had been conceived artificially. It was common for a person to never meet his or her other half. All the marriages had become, like everything else, just another part of the virtual world. When a couple decided to have kids, the woman would go to a fertility clinic where she’d have an embryo implanted. The real problem arose after the child was born. People didn’t want to leave their virtual paradise, not even to care for the needs of their children. Slowly the population started decreasing and people started struggling with disease because they didn’t even want to unplug long enough to participate in physical activities. Only a small portion of the population, the lower class, worked outside delivering and preparing food and doing the grunt work that no one wanted to do. There were others who worked in medical facilities, one of the reputable sectors that required extensive time spent outside of virtual reality. On occasion, I had the chance to go outside to inspect equipment. I also had a car, a fully automatic car, I could put it in autopilot and it would do the rest.

I was satisfied with my life. I had a luxurious virtual world, I had enough money to buy healthy food, live in a good apartment, and I had the chance to engage in physical activities when I had to inspect virtual reality equipment.

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