Elias sat in his semi-autonomous sedan, drifting through the neon-lit congestion of the city. He didn’t look at the road. Instead, his windshield had transitioned into a high-definition display, syncing perfectly with the three million other drivers stuck in the 8:00 AM bottleneck.
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Media hadn't just solved the boredom of traffic; it had made the traffic profitable enough that no one wanted to fix the roads. Elias sat in his semi-autonomous sedan, drifting through
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For Elias, the spectacle was a mask. The more immersive the media became—the 4D seats that vibrated with the bass of a movie, the scent-emitters mimicking ocean breezes—the less people noticed they hadn't moved in twenty minutes.