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A Future We'd Like to See 1.4 - The Common Sense
By Twoflower (Copyright 1993)

VOS! The galaxy was shuddering under the incredible
technological breakthrough. Finally, an abstract way of viewing
data with a clean, simple mental link and no fussing with control
devices named after rodents.

'Course, you can do more entertaining things with VOS that
just being able to view your bar charts in 3-D, contrary to what
some business might think. There's infinite possibilities for
games, entertainment, crime, etc.

And who brings it all to you? The network! Connect up with
VOSnet, and enjoy a number of preconstructed social hotspots.
The Septic Tank! HappiSystem! BarneyWorld! Lifesized, fully
working replicas of places made popular in movie, fiction, and
fact. Complete with familiar settings, sounds, smells, sights
and tastes.

They don't bring you those, however, I do. That's me, Prkky
H'plla. Don't bother trying to pronounce it, humans can never
get the Yttian tongue correct, making it sound like cheaply
synthesized voice software.

Anyway, my point is that you'd still think you were in some
cheap-ass simulation if it weren't for me. I'm a sensitizer,
workin' for the Tank's selective cliente. The common sense, the
man that everybody feels through. With a simple headband,
'trode, and briefcase recorder you can make money and see the
galaxy by recording your senses for other people to sense while
zoning out in unreality.

Not that I get to see any worlds. No legitimate sensitizing
agencies would hire a non-human. Claim the fur screws up the
sensors or something. Bunch of speciesists are what they are.
So, I serve the Yttian public by recording senses that they can
use, instead of having to deal with inferior human recordings.

After all, humans can't hear very well out of those dinky,
warped little things they call 'ears'. They barely can hear a
whisper at twenty feet! Us Ytts, being the proud rabbitoid
species we are, get long, adjustable ears, perfect for reception.
Plus, our sense of smell is infinitely better. Colognes and
perfumes imported from off-world have to be watered down, lest
they short out our sensitive noses.

So where do they get off turning ME down? Not that I care,
because I make more money being a freelance sampler than some
corporate stooge. Plus, I can do it from the comfort of my own