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Bringing the future to now!

Chapter 3 by Primewidow Primewidow

If there was any chance this program is real, chances are you'd be a lot more reserved with whatever you type into the box... but the chances that a random spam e-mail that's brought you to a similarly random and low-effort (ish, the colors are pretty!) site has any chance of actually affecting the world in any meaningful way is too laughable for you to take it seriously at all!

"You want me to beta test? I'll beta test the shit out of it." You snicker to yourself, typing in the entry field.

{The world is 100 years more advanced in our progression of technology.}

'Oh yeah, just by hitting a few keyboard keys and Enter I can totally bring flying cars and shit to the here and now.' You snort, and hit Enter.

There's a strange feeling as the world shimmers around you. It's like when you rub your eyes too hard and the world is nothing but a kaleidoscope of colors, but everywhere and nowhere all at once. It's dizzying and makes you sick, and when your vision focuses in you almost wonder if you passed out and landed seamlessly into a dream.

Gone is your actual computer. Instead, you feel the weight of a visor on your head as you gaze through it towards a floating display not unlike what you've seen when trying out a friend's VR headset. A small, floating keyboard hovered in the space between you and the monitor - another augmented reality asset, yet when you hovered your hand between your eyes and the keyboard, it was actually hidden.

'What the fuck.' You look at the confirmed entry, then you look at your room around you. All of the furniture is sleeker, old wood furniture replaced by high-density plastics and metals that are far easier to mass produce. Your clothes all look more blocky, some feeling futuristic while a jacket hanging on your wall makes it seem like fashion looped all the way back to vintage.

Your bed is replaced by a strange pod, and when you squint at it you realize instinctively that it's your rest pod - 8 hours of rest condensed into 2 hours of sleep, and proven to extend your lifespan by decades if used consistently... but why do you know that?

'What the FUCK.' You're trying not to hyperventilate as you push the AR visor up and away from your eyes. You slide off of your chair, and your feet land on the carpet. It feels way softer and more luxurious, curiously. Half-stumbling towards your window, you look out from it and realize that even more has changed than you knew.

Your suburban home has become part of a tall tower seemingly, as you gaze out from something like the tenth floor into a mess of tall towers that you somehow know are all housing structures. You expect brutalism, and yet intermingled with the blocky, overly-modern architecture is vines and all manner of plant growing along the buildings. Faintly, you recognize it as something called renewable architecture.

Every time you start to get overwhelmed, you realize, your brain seems to be catching up and calming you down. You never exempted yourself from the change in reality, so even if you know it wasn't always like this, it seems like it's helping you understand that this new world brings with it.

"Shit..." You mumble, dread settling in your stomach. "This thing..." You bring the visor back down, your view of the city obscured by the RealityShift program page. "This thing's actually real..."

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