Someone has updated the world operating system. What could possibly go wrong?
"I return to my office and sit. Sure enough, it seems like everything's covered. The specifics as well as the broad generalities. Among other things, I learn that from here on a handshake constitutes a binding contract. Trash that can be recycled will be. Exercise isn't a burden, it's a pleasure. People should brush their teeth after every meal, and they'll wash their hands after every trip to the bathroom. Speed limits are to be obeyed, except on the Interstate. Days will be less rainy, while nights will have quiet downpours. Winters will be brief but bracing. Amazingly, gravity will be dialed back two percent. And dogs won't need leashes anymore, and while roaming free, they'll show the good sense to keep out of traffic and everyone's recycling bins."
Robert Reed is a prolific science fiction author. "The New System" is a hard-to-find story from the previous century.
Reed is best known for his Great Ship saga.
Genre: Science Fiction
"I return to my office and sit. Sure enough, it seems like everything's covered. The specifics as well as the broad generalities. Among other things, I learn that from here on a handshake constitutes a binding contract. Trash that can be recycled will be. Exercise isn't a burden, it's a pleasure. People should brush their teeth after every meal, and they'll wash their hands after every trip to the bathroom. Speed limits are to be obeyed, except on the Interstate. Days will be less rainy, while nights will have quiet downpours. Winters will be brief but bracing. Amazingly, gravity will be dialed back two percent. And dogs won't need leashes anymore, and while roaming free, they'll show the good sense to keep out of traffic and everyone's recycling bins."
Robert Reed is a prolific science fiction author. "The New System" is a hard-to-find story from the previous century.
Reed is best known for his Great Ship saga.
Genre: Science Fiction
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