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Lake Effect 
 by DD McTavish
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Chicago, 2075. A street kid with a mysterious past and an uncertain future lives beneath the streets of Chicago in the warren of abandoned tunnels under the Loop.

An aging, has-been jazz trumpet player mourning the loss of his wife and daughter is lost in a haze, bewildered by the technology surrounding him and his failing heart.

A renegade gamer sells her skills to the highest bidder on the dark web for big money and questionable missions that may or may not take place in the real world. 

Chicago in 2075 is a world where augmented reality is the norm for city dwellers of means, a city awash with refugees from coastal areas all over the world, flooded out from a rising sea in which the great die-off continues.

The wealthy have begun to extend their lives using medical breakthroughs like stem-cell therapies and transfusions of blood and organs from younger donors. The organ trade flourishes. 

Chicago 2075 is a city where surveillance and digital connection is the norm, where Data is king, and if you're old or poor, you fight back against a system rigged against you.

coming soon...

Technology in Lake Effect 

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Chicago

  • Chicago tunnels: 1, 2, 3, 4
  • CPL maker-space



Tiny Gadgets

  • nano-radio, also an "ant-sized" battery-free radio
  • How self-powered nanotech works
  • insectile robots
  • tiny quad-copter
  • working carbon-nanotube computer
  • 1 molecule mic



Surveillance & Counter-Surveillance
  • Chicago face-recognition
  • FBI face-recognition
  • Infra-red LEDs foil CCTV
  • 1 molecule mic
  • distracting Big Brother AI

Biology
  • transfusions of young blood
  • organ trafficking
  • implantable tech


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