Free A Timeless Journey by Elliot Sacchi Page B

looking at people around me and the way they were dressed. Thanks to the advanced technology displayed around, I felt lost. It took me a while to concentrate on what was in front of me.
    In this floor I noticed various restaurants serving old fashioned food among the contemporary organic dishes. This surprised me as I thought the organic way of eating didn’t exist anymore. I couldn’t believe that in two months I had been held in here, I didn’t know I could walk out the apartment, let alone observe a place that cooked real organic food. The menu was displayed on a Holo virtual screen and I could navigate through it easily by simply thinking of the next page once the Link was synchronised to the menu.
    Pushed by a euphoric desire, I tried to walk in one of the restaurants just to have a look inside, but the glass panels on both sides of the door stopped me as I had no PBM and therefore, no credit. This turned a few heads, since it was unimaginable for anyone not to have any credit.
    Immediately after the restaurant area, there were a few different themed bars and three types of music clubs, one of them accessible to members only and the other two accessible to all. Unlike in the 21 st century, these music clubs were accessible 24 hours a day. From what I read on the advertisement display, anyone needing to burn some calories, release stress, or switch their minds off for a while, could walk in and dance away. Seeing what happen to me at the restaurant, I refrained from entering in any other establishment to save myself from further embarrassment!
    I have to admit, if it wasn’t for the holographic projection advertising above and around the entrance what type of establishment it was, I would have never known the difference between a bar, a restaurant, or a music club. None of it looked similar to the ones in the 21 st century. Instead of the conventional windows, the space which divided the outside from inside the establishment was covered by a dense Holo screen curtain advertising non-stop the services offered inside.
    A little further on, there was a comedy club. It also operated 24 hours a day. It was one of those places where random people would go voluntarily on stage and tell their funny stories. Judging from the seriousness of the people I had met so far, the idea of someone from this future was able to say something funny, made me laugh.
    Straight after the comedy club, a big holographic sign announced an electronic era opera and theatre. At first, I questioned what an electronic era was and then it occurred to me it might be the timeline where I was from. Link confirmed my doubts and explained the electronic era was a big attraction in this future due to its primitivism compare to contemporary technology. It was called the electronic era due to the electronic revolution by the end of the 20th century and during the 21st century.
    Once I had completed a full round of the leisure floor, I decided to visit the floor above by taking the floating transparent cube in the middle of the lobby. The floor above had the same architecture as the one downstairs. It circled around the facilities core and instead of apartment spaces there were GNPs only, different house names but more or less the same facilities offered by all. It was a matter of choosing the one that adverts appealed to an individual’s mind the most. I couldn’t see inside a GNP because of the advertising virtual screens which showed the different services offered. If the shop inside was like in the advertisements, it would really confuse everyone in our old reality.
    After walking around and enjoying everything around me, I was captured by a feeling of regret for not being aware I could leave my apartment. Since I couldn’t enter in any of these places, I decided to call it a day. I returned to the apartment and, as I waited for the ‘food’ cabinet to open, I thought of the real food I’d seen on my wanders. At this point, my mind lustfully wondered