Sensory Overload No matter where you go, information is crammed at you. From the streetside infoterminals to the ever present matrix of the global network. Accessing this information offers itself a mesmorising collage of choices from a printed screen on a small cash dispenser screen to a seven foot high infoterminal scrolling a seemingly never ending narration of the world around us. In 2140 information is even present when it is not visible, the global network can be interfaced directly with cybernetic implants, beamed via cellular signals to a cyberoptic HUD or fed directly into a flexible plastiscreen on the sleeve of the latest sports jacket. The strangest thing about it all though is not how much information is around, but how little most people choose to absorb. From my console screen in my office down here in TUBEville I can access information proving that the latest neural relay technology, hailed as being the breakthrough for a new wave of cybernetics didn't get past legal safety controls from the governing bodies in China where it was designed, but it got released anyway, the prospect of profit was far greater than the requirement to ensure that your brain doesn't get fried by a sensory feedback virus launched through the network which is piped directly into your nervous system. I've seen the results of a brain hack, this guy burned to death, except it was all up in his head, but his brain thought it was real and his body reacted accordingly. You can read the report online, but you have to find it, it's not advertised, it's not publically announced, legally it must be viewable, but nothing says that anybody actually needs to be told about it. How about somebody using our eyes and ears for remote reconnisance, no really, you can download softeware to run through a cyberdeck to hack into certain revisions of cyberoptics and audio augmentations from Neotics corporation, it's older kit so they haven't released new firmware, they figure people will upgrade to the latest models. Watch yourselves out there, be careful what you plug into, this isn't your 20th Century Internet, Spyware has a different meaning these days... Until later friends Eldin Cale, from underneath the city in TUBEville -- Okay so narration hasn't got that much to do with the picture, but hell, I got inspired by the infoterminal display and began thinking about information. Raw-Tokai street and lots of Uzilite clothing in this scene. Oh and some consoles from Stonemasson.