• A dome of inflated glass stretched high over the rice fields of Hab 15b. Dargin walked along an elevated catwalk, staring at the data feed scrolling down the inner side of his vac suit’s face shield. Current Crop: Rice – Seed Generation 3483 Variation 45Current Exposure Duration: 19:55:00Next Scheduled Shielding: 00:05:00Rice Nutrient Efficiency: 94.7%Time Since Last Sample: 20:55:00Projected Crop Harvest: 2.5pyNext Scheduled Crop Rotation: Wheat – Seed Generation 278 Variation 14 Dargin sighed as he refreshed and read the data…

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  • (To read this story in non-blog format, follow this link) Garrett Falk swayed with the train car as it bounced along on its way through the city. The other passengers swayed too.  A semi-translucent window hovered in front of him in the middle of the train car. He flicked his pointer finger and the window scrolled to the next auto-generated aggregated news story; something about poverty reaching record numbers. He flicked his finger again to scroll to the next story.…

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