Cloak

By: RM Briggs

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Excerpt

At the same time, Cole took to the world’s digital stage—every Oracle Mobile, Lunettes device, forearm implant, and public address drone carried the broadcast—to make an “important announcement”: the unveiling of significant advances in Cole’s Matia implants.

No longer limited to corrective medical procedures and closed corporate, industrial, and military AI systems and interfaces, Matia implants—autonomous artificial computerized mechanical bodies inserted in the eye socket—were now fully compatible with, and connected to, publicly accessible Oracle systems and networks. Matia would now be available to the public. Matia’s user-friendly tweaks even included the option to change the appearance of your eye colour at will.
Celebrities and socialites began broadcasting Matia implant reveal parties, and the explanations bordered on sales pitches: they were “tired of vision problems—contact lens and corrective surgeries”; they decided to “take proactive control over their eye health” by removing their “disease prone” eyes, replacing them with the bio-electronic ocular implants...