Science fiction is almost always characterized with imagined future or technological advances that have a major social change and display a changed, usually dystopian, civilizations. This film is no exception.
Virtual reality has always been a subject that has both intrigued and scared me. And I'm not talking about the "virtual reality" that we have access to today, but rather, TRUE virtual reality. A state of consciousness most similar and comparable to a lucid dream with built in UI.
This, and the idea of being able to transfer one's being/brain onto a computer, or live in a completely digital state where no organic material is involved.
My story takes place in a time where virtual reality could only be experienced through digital cloning. They had not yet been able to truly transfer a brain from flesh to machine in the same way one can get prosthetics for certain organs or limbs that function exactly as their organic counterparts. In other words, no born human can manifest as a machine.
What they are able to do is take the brain of a living person and copy it exactly as it is down to individual neurons firing. The brain, to them, is essentially a biological program that is predictable and closed circuit.
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