Droids

By the mid 22nd Century, artificial intelligence had advanced so much that there was a ‘droid’ for pretty much everything. Whether one needed medical attention (MediDroid), cleaning up (SaniDroid), help with shopping (KardashaDroid), needed to eat (StarDroid) or desired some companionship (ComfortDroid) there was a two-legged human-like robot of varying shapes, sizes and sexes that you could easily summon to help you.

Most droids would either help you on the spot (depending of course on how private or personal the help required was…) or very quickly take you somewhere to get more in-depth, specialist support. A MediDroid, for example, had a built-in person carrier which if necessary could be deployed to take an individual quickly to an appropriate facility or to connect to a specialist virtual clinic.

Droids had come to be a trusted form of artificial intelligence though they had recently gone through a bad patch with the so-called ‘Life4Real’ hack. This group, made up of a group of former university professors and dedicated to the restoration of antiquated systems and processes, launched a virus attack on G-Soft that almost brought down that tech giant’s AI network.

Of course, G-Soft managed to restore full service quite quickly but not before a few people who just wanted a suit cleaned got mistakenly whisked off for major surgery!