August 9, 2016

I was playing Overwatch with a friend when my network suddenly disconnected so I decided to take a bike ride along the beach. When I got back home, I left my bike outside of the front door and went upstairs. A friend wanted to thank me for finding and returning her iPhone a few days back. She was however curious about the data from her phone’s tracking device which suggested that an unregistered user had carried the phone to an outlet. I told her that it was because I had plugged it in without unlocking the phone.* I went up yet another floor to see a friend’s pet dog but she was nowhere to be seen.

I thought about how it was irresponsible of me to have left the bike outside especially with the strong winds that were now blowing. I rushed down to the front door, only to find multiple identical looking bikes around me. They only differed by the bags attached to them but I couldn’t remember what kind of bag I was carrying on mine or if I was even carrying a bag at all.

A group of people walked by and someone said that they had forgotten what this area was called. What seemed to be a tour guide reminded him that it was named the “bike office”. This same person picked up a bike and asked, “can I stop at any time [without falling over]?”

“Yes, it’s stable and made for [riders with] five hearts” the guide said.

– *This was a world where all electronic devices are the same and all personal data is in the cloud (i.e. there is no locally stored data in phones and anyone can login through any device)