My phone buzzed
notifying me that there was a new news update. I slid my finger to unlock my
phone and read aloud,
“Woman receives
first cell phone implant,” I said.
“Um…
I’m sorry, what?” Trish said, after hearing the ridiculous news.
“That’s
a little... uh... intense. Don’t you think?” I asked, trying to clarify I
wasn’t the only one thinking that.
“Yeah,
just a little,” Trish replied with a sarcastic tone.
Why would someone ever want that?
Did society really push social networking and the use of technology that far
that we have to literally plant it into our brains? I couldn’t get over how
insane that lady must be to have that done.
“Read more about
it!” yelled Trish. She was intrigued by the fact that someone could be so
attached to technology.
“It says she is a
lady from New York City,” I said.
“Well, that
explains it!” Trish interrupted, “Those New Yorkers would need their cell
phones probed into their heads.” I chuckled at the way she said that.
“She’s a lawyer
from Manhattan. It says here that she paid well over a million dollars to have
this surgery. They took a sim-card and satellite chip and planted it into the left
side of her brain!” I said. That’s pretty gross, I thought to myself. “If she
taps her right ear it will make a call, by blinking her eyes twice it hangs up.
To send a text, she just thinks about what she wants it to say, and whom she
wants it to go to, and taps her finger twice to send it.” I said.
“That actually
sounds pretty cool,” Trish said. “I want one!”
“Ew, are you
crazy? That’s so dangerous!” I said.
“Dude! Our parents
could never take our phones away now, and no one could read our texts anymore!”
Trish exclaimed.
“No way, I would
never let someone put a chip in my head. Besides, what if its like some brain
control device that the government is using on us and wants us to think its just a cell phone, but really, they’re
controlling our lives!” I said.
“Okay, now you’re
talking crazy here, Nad.” Trish giggled.
To be continued…
