Interface by Neal Stephenson J. Frederick George

Author:Neal Stephenson, J. Frederick George [Neal Stephenson, J. Frederick George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, High Tech, Cyberpunk, Dystopian
Publisher: Spectra-Bantam Books
Published: 1994-05-31T07:00:00+00:00

“STATE: BIANCA IS OURS!”

But all of this legal squalor was obscuring an interesting medical story. When Bianca arrived in the hyperbaric chamber she had been in a deep coma and totally unresponsive. But in the photo accompanying the

“BIANCA IS OURS”

story, a state social worker stood outside the hyperbaric chamber, smiling and waving through its thick pressure-proof window at the unseen Bianca inside. And there wasn’t much point in smiling and waving to a vegetable. It seemed that Bianca had staged a miraculous recovery. She was far from being back to normal, but she was awake, alert, responsive to verbal communication, and mumbling a few words.

This gave Arapahoe Highlands Medical Center’s new PR director the ammunition he needed to thunder into the media fray. His predecessor and former boss had been sacked with astonishing dispatch as soon as “LET HER DIE!” had hit the streets. The new man had spent the first few days just trying to get on his feet. By the time Wednesday rolled around, he was ready. He brought in a select troop of journalists to videotape and photograph Bianca through the window of the chamber; she obliged by smiling and waving to them. Since she had all but been written off as a vegetable a few days earlier, this was certainly going to have an electrifying effect on the public.

There followed a news conference in a hospital meeting room, where all of Bianca’s doctors, nurses, therapists, and court-appointed guardians stepped up to the microphone to deliver a few bright, upbeat sound bites praising Bianca’s plucky nature and emphasizing the incredible nature of her recovery. A few cynical journalists tried to spoil the day by asking difficult questions, e.g.: “Does Bianca know that the INS is trying to deport her parents?” But the new PR director was standing by the mike at all times, trying to anticipate any line of questioning that might lead to another headline along the lines of

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