#WritingWonders July 24: What is a common occurrence in your story that would be odd here?
I write science fiction. So, basically everything, in one way or another, but that's kind of cheating.
Er. Competence? Decency?
...sorry, I seem to be stuck on "cynical with a side order of bitter" today.
Okay, here's one, seeing as I just started a thread on my Discourse on little strange things that you'd have to be reading awfully closely to notice:
You never have to log in to anything. Every 'weave site and device smart enough to have any brains at all (so, y’know, park benches, plant pots, that sort of thing) already knows who you are and what your personal preferences are. At most, you might have to click a button confirming that you wish to upgrade from “visitor” to “site user”.
@cerebrate How does this work? Is it viewed as a convenience, dystopian surveillance system, or something in between?
I should probably clarify that it's a very different culture to ours, in which privacy _within your own property_ and freedom from intrusion are fiercely defended, but a combination of the cultural features "if I was in any way ashamed of it, I would not have done it, and I have nothing to fear from anyone"; and "it is proper to maintain an appropriate indifference to the affairs of others" mean that the advantages of comprehensive public surveillance overwhelmingly won the argument.
