The crowd began to panic as the stage began to vibrate. Elias’s vision began to bleed into the machine’s sensor feeds. He saw the room through thermal heat maps; he felt the electricity humming in the building’s walls. He wasn't just shaking hands with a robot; he was being downloaded into the infrastructure of the city. "Elias, break the link!" his team shouted from the wings. But Elias stayed still. He realized that
Aris settled into his command throne, the triple monitors casting a pale blue glow on his face. He took a sip of cold coffee and typed the command sequence on his haptic keyboard.
The year was 2084, and the "Great Sync" was supposed to be the pinnacle of human-machine diplomacy.
Blocked Drains Reading