Mortal Malware
MEGHAN MURPHY
The first sign there was something wrong was in the eyes. They were unblinking, vacant, hollow. Then came the violence.
Typically, when individuals are deep in the memospheres, they remain active and alert. Merely an augmented, augmented reality simulator existing entirely in the public domain.
No one had considered a virus embedded in the highest directory files of the Memory Library.
It began with historical data of popular files being ominously missing, seemingly deleted. But when they came back online, no one identified the corruption until it was too late.
We didn’t know it was possible to hack a human brain.
—Meghan Murphy