[ WP ] In the future , everyone downloads new skills straight into their brain . You have spent weeks/months/years learning a new skill , any skill , the old-fashioned way . Why ?

So far all of the base comments are, I fear, liable to be removed. Even this one. 
 
 Going to have to fix that and write a story now, thanks for forcing my hand, jerks. 
 
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 It took me seven years to piece it all together. 
 
 Seven years of carefully scrounging the internet. 
 
 Reading books that slightly hinted at, but did not discuss, the subject of my affection. 
 
 Many things are banned now, you see. With them all being so easy to access though, it is more of a pitiable attempt by the government at maintaining its own relevance in this world. *The Grapes of Wrath* for example. Wonderful read, banned in every state except Southern California - and Utah, but no one considers them a state after the failed Revolt of 2574. 
 
 I managed to get my hands on thirteen printed copies - twelve of which I sold overseas of course. With the United States government doing all it can to restrict us it is important that we help preserve our future - the Svalbard Book Bank is going to do just that. Thank god for the Nords - setting up secure bunkers of culture and life quicker than the Russians establish new missile sites. 
 
 Anyway, enough about that. I just got my first *Personal Enhancement Packaged Stimulation Inductor* in the mail. Everyone calls them Stimpacks, but I quite like the idea of an acronym. We're going to have to change the full name though - PEPSI is liable to get us sued. They do n't like anyone challenging them - the company became really mean and forceful after buying out Coke. 
 
 Anyway, the... Stimpack... was for cleaning skills. I've never been the neatest, but I figured I could use it considering what profession I was going into. 
 
 It's probably not the most traditional route - and it has no Stimpack. Hence why it took me seven years to learn it. If I fail the first time it is game over. 
 
 I even got so low at one point as to /r/AskReddit - it cost twenty dollars, as they had to eventually charge something to keep server costs low, but it was worth it. Kinda. They pointed me in the right direction at least - a few links to an old website called Tumblr helped out some. 
 
 The strangest thing though, was that not even the most prolifically anti-government Stimpack sites had one for it. Maybe it is just one of those arts that loses its meaning if anyone can do it - like baseball. 
 
 Anyway, seven years. 
 
 Seven years sweated away. 
 
 Seven years spent honing an art that will make me famous. 
 
 Seven years suffering under heavy burdens. But it is all right, because now I can make that suffering mean something. 
 
 Those seven years wasted in physical strain - even for a goal so lofty as mine. And all because the government wo n't allow a Stimpack to be made for it. 
 
 Because there is no torrent for murder.
