Looking through the window, Manon could barely discern the skyline. There had been many power shortages in the city, and Manon wondered if today’s blurred view was due to a lack of street lighting or if the smog had started to appear again. ‘Mom! Is the wire down again?’ ‘Yes!’ A canned sound wrenched from the bathroom. ‘Shit! Not only the light...’ Manon cursed the situation and searched aimlessly for his t-shirt on the floor. ‘Yet another day in paradise...’ Manon started worrying. He had surgery to participate in—a significant learning opportunity for his final exams associated with his virtual internship at the city hospital.Manon is a medical student aiming for graduation in 2062. During most of his medical training, the constant and almost daily power shortages made things quite problematic for the brain-computer interface (BCI)-based medical activities he was training for in the privacy of his own home. Fortunately, he was still living with his mom, as these shortfalls had lengthened his medical training immensely. When electricity was off most of the day, the sound from the gas-driven gen-erator was everyday life, and the Internet was unwired via an antenna. Activities not demanding a high-speed bandwidth often performed during these times were emailing. However, these old-school activities were insufficient for today’s tasks: the wired connection was necessary for transferring the Internet’s 3D space and intelligent sensors’ zettabyte data.LIC
