Optimal
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As he walked to the Transit station, he encountered Tricia [34, interested in men, compusocial therapist, reader of adventure stories, she/her], who lived at the end of the block. Their schedules often overlapped. She gave him a warm smile well in excess of their 62 percent romantic compatibility rating.  He smiled back with something around 68 percent, politely acknowledging her overcommitment.
Stephen
In the Future.....romance will be really boring.
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“Maybe the reason you haven’t discovered wine is that you’re not much of one for discovery,” she said. “You seem to live a very prompt-bound life.” “Prompt-bound?” “There’s no shame in it, I guess. Enough people do. Most, really. But you miss out. You fall into a cycle, with the System’s help, of course. The same dozen restaurants, over and over again. The same music, and music similar to that music. The same food, and food similar to that food. Don’t you see how monotonous it is? Isn’t it boring?”
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“A boring world?” Jack said, puzzled. “How can you say that? There’s so much to do, to read, places to go, people to talk to. Social, Knowledge, storystreams. There’s more content than you could consume in a lifetime.” “Content.” She smiled thinly. “When you understand what’s wrong with what you just said, you will be closer to understanding Stanton.”
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“Why don’t people publicize it?” “Maybe people tried.” “The System suppresses the information.” “It buries it,” she said. “You can post to Social about this all day long if you want to, it will never appear on the top of anyone’s feed. The dog-show results, funny cat videos, curiously shaped potatoes…” “I did, in fact, post about it, and that’s pretty much what happened.” “The System isn’t a bully,” Mira said. “It just offers alternatives. Persistently.”