A few weeks after Lia has been downloaded to the mechanical body, her therapist asks her to list positive things about her new body. She can't see many positives, but mutters that she can "link in" whenever she wants. Then she remembers how she could already do that using "a net-lens" in her eye, that gave her augmented reality features, but also gave her a headache, made her nauseated and required her to poke her eye. Her description is laden with sarcasm.
"I can link in whenever I want," I muttered. But that wasn't new. For my sixteenth birthday, I'd finally gotten a net-lens, which meant that once I got used to jamming a finger in my eye, I could link with a blink, just like the pop-ups said. Could superimpose my zone and my av over blah reality, type on a holographic keyboard that only I could see. But the pop-ups didn't mention how it made you nauseated and made your head burn. Now I had a built-in lens, and migraines weren't an issue. Hooray for me. (Chapter 4)
| Title | Publication Type | Year | Creator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skinned | Narrative, Novel | Robin Wasserman |
