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tiny rocks.  It really just needs to enter your body, any way
is ok; so technically, you can shove your new computer up your ass
and it would install perfectly.  The fastest way actually is
to snort it, but only druggies really do that.  But you do
need to ingest all of it.  Each nanobot has a certain job and
even though there are backups, if you lose too many, your IC will
fail and you’ll have a metallic speckled shit one day.
    ICs gave the everyday person
the power that programmers had so long held to themselves.
 Anyone could modify their IC and create new programs and
“apps” just by thinking about it.  Everyone was instantly
connected to each other and everyone had the most powerful computer
on the market, the human brain.  Anything you can think of
that modifies any of your senses is fair game with an IC, the
possibilities are endless.  
    Every IC has a virtually
unlimited memory capacity, using your brain.  The first couple
days of having an IC is like being in heaven and hell at the same
time while tripping on mushrooms.  Everything you remember is
recallable, reliveable, editable, copy able and shareable.
 You can even enhance memories, change them, edit them with
other memories and set it to music.  Dreams are recordable.
 This was a huge one, who would’ve guessed that in the future,
the hottest thing available to buy would be celebrity dreams.
 It’s like a TV show with unlimited episodes, until the person
dies that is.  Michael Jackson’s are the best.  He’s
really a great showman; even in his dreams filled with young boys
and jesus juice parties, he has a great stage presence.  (Yes,
they kept his brain.)
    Recorded dreams are just called
Dreams.  They’re hugely popular mainly because of ICs, but
it’s really nothing more than a new television or net show.
 The good ones come and go like any meme; everyone talks about
the latest hot series of dreams until the collective conscious gets
bored and move on to the next.  In this society, just another
revenue stream, another creature for ads to devour, another avenue
for a Megastar Celebrity to “re-invent themselves”, and in the end
of its life cycle, like most popular products, a propaganda tool.
 
    Dreams are the ultimate
commodity, the perfect franchise, the ocean front property in
Arizona.  They have an unlimited supply, the best special
effects, they are interactive and unpredictable, they’re cheap to
produce, they’re uncensored and director’s cut, and they’re always
starring you!  For the consumer, there’s an unlimited
selection, a new episode of your favorite dream comes out every
day, sometimes two, or even three new Dreams a day from your
favorite dream artist!  With the network of people’s connected
ICs, you could watch only new dreams every moment of your life and
never see 1% of the dreams out there.  In fact, if you had an
IC, you could watch a set of dreams 100 wide and 100 long, across
your vision and still only see a tiny percent of them.  So, as
you can tell, dreams were a huge market, a huge market that people
had a never ending thirst for.  The government tried their
damnedest, but they could never crack the dream market.  Ads
in dreams, that’s a whole other story.  

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    ADS
    You probably know the word “Ad”
as short for advertisement.  And originally that’s what it
meant, normally a short video or media message about how great a
product is.  But after the wave of “Black Everyday”
consumerism that ICs created, some people would plaster themselves
with advertisements.  Some of them even became a little
famous.  Corporations saw this trend and promoted it.
 They started paying people to wear their logo.  Getting
a tattoo of their logo was even better than wearing a shirt, so you
would get paid more for a tattoo.  Some people actually became
so much like walking advertisements, “Ad” became used to describe
them instead of something as two-dimensional as a