Greetings famous readers. Thanks for being here. Last week and yesterday we spent discussing the planet Kusha and it’s environment. Today we’ll start talking about what kinds of technologies are available here on Kusha.
Of course the SID still has people here and they all have their own technologies. Most SID employees have the optical implants. Apparently it is a requirement for promotion. At some point in every SID person’s career they must accept one. Some folks like to wear the eye glasses that kind of do the same thing, let you see a display for life, but at least the glasses you can take off. Once the implants are in they are there and on all the time. Management can look in on what ever you are seeing day or night. Supposedly there are provision for limiting access to private time but there have been many scandals where government operators were looking in on personal moments.
Most of what we have here on Kusha is of alien design. We cut ties with the SID early on in the Galactic War and never really became involved with them afterwards. We still get occasional visits and they do have an office in Harappa City with about a dozen employees.
I have a pair of the glasses but I rarely go out with it. I prefer to have a tablet. I like holding something in my hands to read or view. I find the ocular displays distracting and think they give me a headache. My wife Ina says that is all just in my head and that there is nothing in the glasses that could give me such symptoms. She likes the things and is always reading with hers while she does house work. I prefer to prop up my tab by the sink when I do dishes.
I may not be the best person to talk up the latest gadgets. I don’t use many of them but the kids do and I know what they like. (isn’t it Grandpa who winds up getting these things for the kids after all?)
So, starting tomorrow, I’ll tell you what gadgets the kids are into in Earth Year 2479. That is the kids on Kusha. I don’t know much of what is going on on Lava and Earth has taken a different path haven’t they?
Never Mix red wine and Oodo.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 87
Earth Year 2479
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