Title: 
Education not for all
Narrative 1: In the year 2068, Earth’s resources have reached its maximum potential. Every country now has a shortage of supplies. The same goes for the education and health sectors. Now not every child has the right for education. Education is now only in the private sector. Every parent must pay for education if a child is accepted at school. The government has decided that only certain groups of children will be put through the education system starting Kindergarten. Online forms are no longer used across all sectors. The reason is because forms (online or paper) are deemed not user friendly and time consuming. Applications for most services are done through retina or wrist scans. In order to apply for school, parents must take their children to an authorized health lab for a genetic test. Authorities will use the data on the genetic test and put it into an algorithm to determine if the child is suitable to be enrolled in school. The algorithm is created to calculate the child’s likelihood of success, intelligence and developmental capacity in the years to come. The government puts great faith in this selection process. One of the reasons is because results are ready within minutes of testing. Children are required to retest every two year before the school year begins. This selection process continues through to the high school years. As the crisis of overpopulation worsens every year, authorities are beginning to significantly reduce the number of spots for schools. Authorities are only interested in cultivating and investing in children of high potential and intelligence.
Tessa, a single mother, has been trying to get her daughter into the school system since Kindergarten but every year her daughter is not selected. Her daughter, Rachel, is now supposed to be in Grade 2. The authorities have sent her letters saying that her daughter just did not make the cut. “What does that mean?”, Tessa angrily said to an officer. Every time no one is able to give her an answer. She and a group of parents who are in a similar situation have created a group to rise against this selection process. Tessa remembers her grandparents telling her that education used to be for all children. What has the world become?
Title: 
Text no More
Narrative 2: In the year 2068, keyboards have become historical tools for inputting data. Engineers have perfected a speech recognition algorithm that enables 100% accuracy for every language and accent and command. This voice recognition is embedded into every electronic device such as television, smartphone, computers, cars, ATMs, public transport, and traffic lights. Tessa, a university student, “takes the car” to school every morning. Like all the other drivers, once the car scans her retina and wrist, she commands “open door” and her car door opens. Then she tells her car system the destination she wants and it takes her there correctly, safely and in a timely manner. She does not need to touch the steering wheel or the pedal. The car drives itself once it receives a destination command. In her car, Tessa can connect and “text” her friend by using voice recognition without errors. She can even order meals to be delivered to her house while in her car by saying, “order…at…” and her car would immediately connect her to the restaurant and submit her order. The word “text” is now a synonym to speech recognition. This was all that Tessa knew. She had heard about how her grandparents did not have this luxury. They had to use the keyboards on their phone to connect with their friends and families. More than 30 years ago, her grandparents certainly would not be able to control the car with their voice the way Tessa and other modern drivers could now. Lately, there have been some concerns about security issues with the speech recognition. Some people have been able to counterfeit the voice of car owners and other electronic devices to gain access. Despite the convenience and efficiency, Tessa sometimes wonders where all her data is stored and if it is safe from hackers.