That is a very dark picture of a future. Though not impossible.
Did you read "LoveStar" from the Icelandic author Andri Snær Magnason? Your story reminds me of this work but also I can relate it to Aldous Huxley's brave new world. A bit of Startrek I can also see because the term nanites I know from there. Well, that only shows that I am full of influences by what I so far read and saw. I hope you don't mind me mentioning that. I find Magnason, Huxley and Startrek brilliant!
It makes me sad though. And that is, of course, the best compliment a writer can get. It also makes me upset. I don't want that world.
Why did you stop blogging?
Your first commentator @reinhard-schmid made me coming here. He mentioned you in one of his comments to me. We became friends as he was one of the first people I got in close touch with.
Hope, you are well.
A stranger from Germany
:)
I'll have a more elaborate answer later as I've been out with friends and quite tired :)
But thank you for your comment and insight. I appreciate it, very much.
That was very kind of you to let me know that you take your time. I appreciated it.
So here we are, amidst the remnants of another blogger who bit the dust.
Tiddly-pom.
I felt his story was describing the present, to be honest. I can see it all coming to pass. I was reminded of the Matrix and the Machine World. You know, I think the Matrix was one of the most sophisticated films to have come out of Hollywood -thanks to the brothers-now-sisters directors who seem to be highly hermetically-gnostically inspired. That coming from an Arthouse buff.
I too won't be around here for much longer, since quality writing like this is doomed to go insufficiently noticed. Even if it's not about needing to earn a living, a writer must have a steady amount of subscribers. It is how it works even for a journalist. Otherwise the writer will run out of real steam. (They usually don't want to be here for any other reason, like casual friends or recipes or lists of government conspiracies.)
But before you know it you get dragged in by irritations, because that is the name of the game. (As Tim has popped back in to tell you himself).
I can appreciate your more patient promise to yourself to learn as much as you can - for this too one must do while one is here, like it or not - but the cost can be quite high, with the picture of social side of man sometimes glum and often artificial while nobody much sees in which subtle ways this is so.
Here till 31 May, hope to read more from (either of) you soon.
I missed this somehow, because Steemit really isn't good at notifying you of replies unless you're specifically searching for them.
Further writings would be forthcoming if I believed in this platform - but I do not.
That could change, but I'm not holding my breath.