Our headlong head strong embrace of the new revolution left the majority behind. But then again the future has always been the present for the rich, and the poor have always been consigned to the past. Once quantum computing had been unleashed by an accelerated intelligent 6-year-old girl, nothing was the same again. The artificially modified version of Asperger’s had been introduced to a batch of embryos the surviving few went on to make great strides bringing the promised singularity ever closer.

Once the breakthroughs had occurred the subsequent emergence of A.I assistants made the accelerated intelligent children obsolete. So, they were celebrated before having the honour of having their organs and tissue harvested for the cellular regeneration therapies which were becoming increasingly popular. You see once the understanding that injecting younger cells into the elderly rejuvenated their cells the human testing began in earnest.

Enhanced humans tended to be older and a lot wealthier, and as more could afford to join the club enhanced humans became the norm, both aesthetically and intellectually. Everybody else became less than humans simply by standing still. The poor masses were largely redundant due to automation in the job market, so as they were no longer human, they became expendable.