Familiar Face
Familiar Face In a thoroughly modernized, constantly updating society, where can true connection be found?The bodies of citizens and the infrastructure surrounding them is constantly updating.…
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Familiar Face
In a thoroughly modernized, constantly updating society, where can true connection be found?The bodies of citizens and the infrastructure surrounding them is constantly updating. Commuter routes radically differ day to day. People can't recognize themselves in old pictures, and they wake up in apartments of completely different sizes and shapes.
There is no way to resist--the updates are enacted by a nameless, faceless force.The narrator of Familiar Face works in the government's department of complaints, reading through citizens' reports of the issues they've had with the system updates. The citizens struggle with adaptability as updates happen too quickly, and the changes are far too radical to be intuitive. The job isn't to fix anything but rather to be the sole human sounding board, a comfort in a system so decidedly impersonal.
These complaints aren't