I blinked, my eyes burning from the incessant glow of holograms and flickering screens that surrounded me. The world had become a feverish dance of hyper-stimulation and information overload. Brutalist architecture towered above, cold and imposing, as if mocking the dwindling remnants of human connection. I had grown accustomed to this synthetic reality, where everything was fake, from the online communities to the filtered faces of celebrities.My days were spent in a meaningless job, trapped...