Island Life (The Singularity Archives Book 1) (English Edition)

In the latter part of the 21st century, technology has made human skills obsolete. The ranks of the unemployed are growing at an alarming rate. One solution to the problem is the "living aureole" concept. Within the aureole, the living bodies of the disenfranchised are warehoused and maintained through a method of no-cost automation. Aureole system residents agree to allow their brains to be augmented with hardware, which in turn enables them to be immersed in a network of rich and wondrous virtual worlds. Advertised as a Utopian life of abundance and the next step in human evolution, it sounds almost too good to be true. This is the story of one family's experience.