Literature
CxB Week 2023 Friday Sept 22: Fanfiction Friday
Clark Kent might have been Superman but his day job was still that of an underpaid reporter and he could not afford the latest technologies or, to look at them or daydream about upgrading. He’d still be using his Pa’s old typewriter if Mr. White had not provided an old-fashioned laptop for Clark to write his stories on. Still, persocoms were pretty-interesting; human looking computers like the old days of science fiction brought to life. Though early models started out as all women, the market expanded into men and then small laptop models that could be mistaken for a child’s doll. The main problem Clark found with persocoms, especially the Lifesize models, is that more and more people seemed to concentrate on their persocoms and forget about other people. A person with a persocom, often looked like a couple on a date, rather than a person with their life-like computer. There was even a baker who had been married to his persocom years ago, and gave