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What If...

Submitted by offreadin on July 3, 2008 - 18:12.

"Mom, What if I took off my tracker bracelet?" Elaen asked as she scratched at the hair's bredth line that she knew was where the bracelet opened.
"You'd get lost, honey" Her mother replied as she passed vegatables under the refrigerator's food ID, "And worse."
"But what did they do before tracker bracelets?"
"What do you mean?" She paused, celery halfway under the scanner. It beeped "Incomplete scan" and she pushed the celery the rest of the way under.
"People didn't always have tracker bracelets, Mom. They couldn't have"
Her mother's eyes glazed over. "Tracker bracelets are so wonderful They keep track of how many calories we consume. They get us where we need to go. They work as IDs and constantly check us for diseases."

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