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I Could See the Moon

Tom Ball

    In my early childhood, I used to tell my mother, “I could see the moon.”
    Now I owned the entire Moon, and made it into my own personal museum.
    I had written a number of romantic comedies and romantic tragedies and we played the plays every night. And I had brought back alien artifacts from space for the museum and recorded my nightly dreams which could be experienced here in Virtual Reality (VR).
    I kept ownership of the Moon, but leased out large tracts of it to business interests such as mining and collecting water from craters/soil.
    It was considered a rite of passage for young people to come here and experience Space. I had a low gravity amusement park in Virtual Reality that they could only experience on Luna. And my dreams were not Online, they had to come here to enjoy them.
    Over the years I added more VR Worlds, unique to the Moon.
    Finally, there was no reality on the Moon, it was just empty except for thousands of beds underground where people lay dreaming, and everyone who came here was immersed in invisible VR that was unique to Luna.
    It was the year 2200 and the temporary population of Luna was 50,000, mostly hologram dreamers as well as some servants/sex workers.
    And the most popular VR world here was on the Internet and was a World of hologram women and men who played hard to get. Tourists from their base on Earth were used to getting their way with love, and were driven insane by my holo love dolls. Insane with desire. The dolls were all very sexy and knew how to have a good time.
    Also, very popular was a VR Internet World in which tourists experienced hateful holograms and had to triumph over them and take control of this VR World. And I was always generating new holo “bad guys.”
     Another popular VR was 10 years into the future in which Earth and its colonies were abandoned and everyone lived in a parallel World of MRT (mind reading technology) and VR. I thought Earth was passe. But in this World, some fought for Reality and mostly lost.
    I said, “Reality is dull and boring whereas VR is scintillating and inspiring. VR is the new Reality.”
    But many didn’t want to give up their body completely and just live inside a computer. But such people were behind the times and destined for extinction in their bloodline.
    I said, “I can see the Moon.”

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