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Story 9

Children were given connects at 10 which allowed the computers direct access to the child’s brain. Politics had always had a hand in the learning institutions and this was the golden calf. Here was the perfect conduit to political power. Instructors began insinuating their teachings directly into the brain, when the mind was too young and too vulnerable to defend against them. About ten years later, the Panchans (teachers who supervised the computers Justin had built) began dominating at voting polls as the children who had first come into contact with the mind-melding machines came of voting age.

Justin was horrified at the outcome of the program he had started and, disillusioned, took his pregnant wife and escaped to a cabin he had built in the woods many years earlier as a retreat.

As Josh grew older, he learned about the machines his father had created. Not content with just influencing politics, the Panchans began culling information from the minds of the people being ‘taught’.

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