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Authors: Shawn Davis, Robert Moore
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cold chill prickling up the small hairs on the back of her neck, as she suddenly had an inspiration. Virtual-world was on the same island as New Washington. Except for the wall separating them, they were practically touching each other.
Maybe there’s a way to get into the city from Virtual-world?
They had discussed the idea before and it had always been shot down for being impossible. For some unfathomable reason, she now thought that Virtual-world was the key.
Campion switched on her desk computer and logged on to the Internet, searching for the Virtual-world web site. She didn’t have to look for long. A gaudy, full-screen advertisement for the government’s high-tech theme park appeared on the monitor. She entered the Virtual-world site and explored it with wide-eyed fascination.
Fantastic images of ordinary people doing battle with extraordinary robotic opponents filled the screen. They were real pictures taken inside the Powerdrome; Virtual-world’s largest and most famous attraction. The people in the pictures were real tourists who had paid money to go to Virtual-world in order to experience the thrill of a lifetime. The advanced robotics of the Powerdrome ensured no limit to the artificial enemies that could be thrown at the thrill-seekers.
This place is incredible . I can’t believe I’ve never been there. When this is all over, I might have to pay a visit .
Campion thought she would do pretty well against the Virtual-world robots.
Of course, why do I need to fight robots when there are plenty of real enemies to fight?
That was the real reason Campion hadn’t taken a day off to visit the high-tech theme park. With all the real missions that had to be completed, she didn’t have time to partake in fantasy challenges. Like many things in the late twenty-first century, Virtual-world was larger than life .
I mean, we’ve only had air-cars for what? Fifteen years? Virtual-world has only been around for the last ten years .
Campion remembered when they began construction of the high tech theme park. It was about fifteen years after they had put the finishing touches on the nation’s new capitol city.
During the year 2046, the capitol city’s Recreation Director or RD realized that half the island, which the city was built upon, was still unexploited. At that time, the recreation industry was booming. There were more rich people in society than ever before; rich people who needed entertainment.
Advanced robotic theme parks became the “in” thing for the nation’s wealthiest citizens. Robotics technology had reached a stage where people couldn’t differentiate between a real person and an android. This made the technology ideal to create fantasy environments where people with enough money could battle fantasy villains to the “death.” Or at least until the villains were re-programmed or repaired.
New Washington’s RD decided to utilize the unexploited portion of the island to build a superior robotics theme park that would blow all the other high tech parks out of the water. The Government Entrepreneurial Division or GED would provide the initial investment. That meant the GED would also control the profits, but there would be room for healthy salaries for the park’s Board of Directors with the RD as the chairwoman. So the RD teamed up with the GED to begin work on the greatest theme park in the world.
The Government Entrepreneurial Division consulted its investment contacts in the country’s most advanced robotics industries and formulated an idea to construct the premiere park on the planet. The robotics experts claimed that a significantly large investment by the GED would enable them to construct advanced humanoid robots that would interact with people in a complex, unprecedented way. They said the result would be so spectacular that people from all over the world would pay any amount of
Maybe there’s a way to get into the city from Virtual-world?
They had discussed the idea before and it had always been shot down for being impossible. For some unfathomable reason, she now thought that Virtual-world was the key.
Campion switched on her desk computer and logged on to the Internet, searching for the Virtual-world web site. She didn’t have to look for long. A gaudy, full-screen advertisement for the government’s high-tech theme park appeared on the monitor. She entered the Virtual-world site and explored it with wide-eyed fascination.
Fantastic images of ordinary people doing battle with extraordinary robotic opponents filled the screen. They were real pictures taken inside the Powerdrome; Virtual-world’s largest and most famous attraction. The people in the pictures were real tourists who had paid money to go to Virtual-world in order to experience the thrill of a lifetime. The advanced robotics of the Powerdrome ensured no limit to the artificial enemies that could be thrown at the thrill-seekers.
This place is incredible . I can’t believe I’ve never been there. When this is all over, I might have to pay a visit .
Campion thought she would do pretty well against the Virtual-world robots.
Of course, why do I need to fight robots when there are plenty of real enemies to fight?
That was the real reason Campion hadn’t taken a day off to visit the high-tech theme park. With all the real missions that had to be completed, she didn’t have time to partake in fantasy challenges. Like many things in the late twenty-first century, Virtual-world was larger than life .
I mean, we’ve only had air-cars for what? Fifteen years? Virtual-world has only been around for the last ten years .
Campion remembered when they began construction of the high tech theme park. It was about fifteen years after they had put the finishing touches on the nation’s new capitol city.
During the year 2046, the capitol city’s Recreation Director or RD realized that half the island, which the city was built upon, was still unexploited. At that time, the recreation industry was booming. There were more rich people in society than ever before; rich people who needed entertainment.
Advanced robotic theme parks became the “in” thing for the nation’s wealthiest citizens. Robotics technology had reached a stage where people couldn’t differentiate between a real person and an android. This made the technology ideal to create fantasy environments where people with enough money could battle fantasy villains to the “death.” Or at least until the villains were re-programmed or repaired.
New Washington’s RD decided to utilize the unexploited portion of the island to build a superior robotics theme park that would blow all the other high tech parks out of the water. The Government Entrepreneurial Division or GED would provide the initial investment. That meant the GED would also control the profits, but there would be room for healthy salaries for the park’s Board of Directors with the RD as the chairwoman. So the RD teamed up with the GED to begin work on the greatest theme park in the world.
The Government Entrepreneurial Division consulted its investment contacts in the country’s most advanced robotics industries and formulated an idea to construct the premiere park on the planet. The robotics experts claimed that a significantly large investment by the GED would enable them to construct advanced humanoid robots that would interact with people in a complex, unprecedented way. They said the result would be so spectacular that people from all over the world would pay any amount of
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