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Justine wakes to her android digital companion, DANA, attuned to her breath, heartbeat, and every emotion 365 days of the year.
The year is 2410, and technology runs every facet of human life. Convinced humans have sacrificed their autonomy, Justine wants to unplug from the digital world. When she learns of the off-the-grid community of Merrick, she believes these people have the right idea.
But after Justine's boss goes missing, strange events begin to take place, and people start going off the grid. Will human and computer merge to save their common future, or is it already too late?
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Off The Grid - E. Denise Billups
OFF THE GRID
E. DENISE BILLUPS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Knock, Knock, Anyone Home
Life Before Digital
No Cell Phones Allowed
Gone, But Still Here
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About the Author
Copyright (C) 2020 E. Denise Billups
Layout design and Copyright (C) 2022 by Next Chapter
Published 2022 by Next Chapter
Cover art by CoverMint
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the author’s permission.
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank my Beta Reader, John Darryl Winston,
for his fantastic editorial advice.
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
– Christian Lous Lange
Knock, Knock, Anyone Home
DANA, my android digital companion, activates at 8:30 AM, waking me with a brisk, melodious chord inside my bedroom walls and ceiling. When the wall-integrated TV powers on, the window shades glide open, the air-conditioner hums, and coffee beans grind in the kitchen.
Good morning, Justine,
DANA greets in a masculine voice set to my liking, sounding much too human for a computer. It’s a brilliant spring day. The temperature is seventy-nine, rising to eighty-five degrees. I’ve run your shower, and the coffee is brewing. A replenishment drink is ready to restore low electrolytes in your body. Would you care for today’s news headlines?
No, thank you, DANA,
I reply to my twenty-four hours, 365 days a year digital companion always attuned to my breath, heartbeat, and emotions. Like an extra limb, DANA senses my health, needs, desires, and dreams. I wonder how people survived without the Android assistant in the past and worry we’ve become too reliant on technology. Have we lost autonomy? Can we cope without our digital companion? Of late, I craved privacy and unplugged from the digital world