Data Manipulator

I can scarcely remember the time that I walked the surface of the earth for any extended period of time. Data manipulation has reached the point where I find that most of what I need to do can be accomplished from the comfort of my own home, without ever having the need to get to the outside world.

The revolution came subtly, like most widespread and successful ones. I could barely remembered the time where I had to peer into a computer monitor to see what I am doing. Now, all that I ever needed to do, was just to switch my glasses to projection mode, and everywhere that I looked, there will be a ghostly visage which shows the location that I am in in virtual space.

Information on my computer was displayed in a large and rather visual four dimensional data cube, with teleporting portals allowing me to access virtually the remaining spatial dimension that no one can ever visualise, even in their mind's eye. I spent the better half of the day patching up the data wall around my corner of cyberspace, to prevent nosey folks from peering in; all these I accomplished through the use of a spatial sensing system which computed my actions in virtual space based on the position of my digits and other body parts in the real world. Despite my best efforts, I find that I still need to make rather frequent patches to the data wall, since it is of a common occurrence to have would be wannabes trying to break into folks private data space.

Being in the field for so long meant that one probably makes a fair number of enemies, mostly within the business itself. No decent data manipulator will ever not be targets of random attacks---their sheer power makes it enticing for the professional crooks to get at them.

Even after so long, I still prefer the feel of a keyboard, and not being too involved with the virtual space, so I just configured my rig to only track head and finger motions. While I must say that the current means of working is fine from a data manipulator's perspective, I still long for the simplier life, where dealing with data didn't mean a full scale enterprise like the one that I am doing now.

Who am I kidding anyway?