Data Dump - The World of "Manna"

Some background on "Data Dump".

The universe comes from "Manna" from Marshall Brain. The link to his story is right here. Like most stories about a utopia, the initial part is the most interesting but the part that sketches out the utopia is pretty dull.

What's great about Brain's story is that it's so plausible. However, there are a few holes in the story that I wanted to explore. If you make it to the end of "Manna" there all all sorts of springboards that can be used to explore issues of identity, as well as politics and economics. I planned (or plan) on taking a crowbar to Brain's story and "opening it up".

I can see Daria being very hostile to the idea of robots. As for Sandi, part of her strangeness is due to her economic dislocation. It's been hard for someone who has been "somebody" all her life to all of a sudden become a "nobody". Daria, however, has always been a "nobody".

I might or not write more. Scissors, thanks for getting that far. I intend to use this dystopia to exorcise my writing muse.