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“Wait, so the Internet is in your brain now?” I ask before I can stop myself

He blinks at me, but quickly recovers with a s else For exah…you don’t see outfits We’re way too obvious and dated, andThink, think, think “Um, our parents are really old-fashioned,” I say Which makes no sense, since the three of us are clearly not related

But Adao to this superconservative school with no technology” He rolls his eyes “Parents”

“I see,” the salesman says, but his s?”

“Oh yeah, not a problem,” Adam says “So can we see a demonstration of how they work?”

“Certainly” The salesins fitting it to Adam’s face “When you put it on, it can sync with your profile using your brain waves or your DNA”

Connecting to Ada about his future self He must realize it too, because he quickly raises his hands to stop the guy “Oh, um, I don’t—”

“Don’t worry If you don’t have a profile, you can easily create one And our display models here are set up with a fake profile for you to try”

Brain waves and DNA? I shudder and turn away to examine the other displays of si the Internet in your brain is just so…creepy I don’t want a colance at Adarin on his face, and I can tell he doesn’t feel the same

On the wall, a video shohat it looks like when you’re wearing a flexi We see fro it, and as he walks down the street, the video bounces with each step Information swims across the screen—news headlines scroll in one corner, along with an ad for portable 3-D printers, and a e from someone named John flashes at the bottoe slowly appears in it, as though being typed by the user: Sure, be there in 5 I watch, hypnotized and horrified at the sae is sent and athe person to the location

Ada is incredible I can’t even feel it on hs “I just started watching a video of a cat riding a pig! Oh man, I e could take these back to our ti around Luckily the employees and other customers are too busy to hear us

“Sorry” He leans close, lowering his voice “We should buy some of these so we can study them somewhere safe”

“Won’t they connect to our future selves’ profiles?”

“Nah, we can just et five of them”

“Five? Do we all need one?” I have zero interest in putting one of those things on

He grins at so only he can see, while Zoe sketches one of the flexis on display I can see I’ve completely lost the two of theinal sales guy is busy with another customer, so I walk up to an employee with pink streaks in her hair who can’t beokay?” she asks

“Yeah, I’d like to buy five of the SG17 flexis”

She moves to the front counter and pulls out five tiny boxes “That’ll be 980”

I pull the wallet Aether Corp provided out of my backpack and count out the h to cover it I try to give it to the cashier, but she looks ather a live snake

“I’lances at the sales for help