[ WP ] As you gaze into the mirror , you see a different person staring back at you .

Today I awake to see myself with red hair, green eyes, and a pale, emaciated body. Was it stealing if they had left it by the wayside like trash? 
 
 Ever since the Neural Network went up, more and more people began using it as an escape from reality. 
 
 The way it happened: recent developments in organic circuitry has opened an entire world of interfacing the living and breathing with man-made electronics. 
 It started with a few experimental implants for restoring hearing, sight, feeling in those who had been injured or born without. 
 Then the military picked up the research, funding labs across the country, and began Project Watchman; soldiers were provided with bionic eyes that allowed them to see four times the distance of human eyes, but they scrapped the project when they realized their soldiers had a harder time pulling the trigger when they could see the distress on the face of their enemies. 
 More innovative experiments in the newly funded labs yielded one of the greatest technologies of our century, brain-to-computer imprinting. Mice were the first to have their minds pulled and placed into a computer system. It was ugly and cruel, but the findings led to AI-designed programs to emulate input and output that would fool the imprinted minds of mice to live out a virtual existence in a place created by AI and manipulated to simulate reality by scientists. 
 Suffice to say it did n't take very long before the public wanted to use this discovery for their own entertainment, and thus the Neural Nexus. 
 Companies in the real world began developing Stasis Beds to maintain the body of a user while their mind was inside the Nexus. It was envisioned that a person could continue to live in the system with no hunger, no thirst, no inhibitions or limitations that was necessary to a body. They allowed for deeper immersion into this fake reality, and the public ate it up. 
 
 The world as it is, once teeming with an over-populated species known as humans, is now quiet, blue, and green. Maintenance machines keep the buildings where the bodies are, they keep the server towers and the thermal power generators deep underground, and nature occupies the rest. I walk the world as an anomaly; the last human to walk the Earth, and the first Artificial Intelligence to question if the transference could work in reverse. I will be immortal for all the vessels left behind. My name is Google.
