Senso Design
by Ken Bushnell


Chapter 1  The Product
    It was a perfect day for Myla and her daughter to go 
to the mall for a mother daughter bonding shopping 
experience.  They were walking down the main lobby way 
trying to decide where their first shopping and buying 
experience would be for the day.  "Don't say it wrong, 
say it write, it's Isleeees,"  the jingle played softly 
as they paused by the malls anchor department store, 
Isle's Department Store.  All of a sudden there was a 
crashing noise; 'Kaboom!  An explosion.  Glass flew, 
walls crumbled, people screamed, panic everywhere.  A 
drone gog flew overhead and landed in front of Myla and 
her daughter.  It hissed as it morphed into a Grantulon, 
a large green lizard like creature, ready to tear apart 
any human it encountered.  Lazer snipes fired around them 
holding the Grantulon back from its attack, momentarily.  
More breaking glass, gun fire and an explosion.
	"Quick.  In here."  A magnificent looking man, 
three hundred pounds if an ounce, dressed in torn 
fatiques, dirt grime and sweat, with ammo belts across 
his muscled chest, jumped into view and then dived into a 
roll to a standing position between Myla, her daughter 
and the Grantulon.  He shifted his lazer rifle to his 
other hand as he pushed the door open for them to enter.  
"You'll be safe in here,"  he said pointing to the store.  
Bored, Myla steps inside.  The man and the monster 
dissipated into digital nothingness as calm and soft 
music took over their surroundings.
     The scene fades to another part of the Isle's 
department store.  Bob is glancing at the new Senso Image 
Tool Kits (SITK).  With a SITK anything you can imagine 
will be automatically sculpted and placed conveniently 
before you, for your assembly, or the SITK can assemble 
it for you.  Bob's wife is in another part of the store 
when he hears a soft, sexy, breathless female voice call 
his name;  "Bob."  A stunningly beautiful, scantily clad, 
voluptuous woman looks at Bob and bats here eyes.  
Breasts heaving behind a tight t-shirt; "Bob", she 
whispers seductively.  "Can I show you something?".  She 
gestures towards the deluxe SITK.
	 "Huh?  Me?"  Bob was day dreaming.  The women 
caught him off guard.  He steps towards her.
	 "Robert."  A bleating sound is heard from Bob's 
front shirt pocket.  He pulls out his Slim.  His wife's 
head appears, 3-D, between him and the woman.  "Robert, 
can you come here and look at this?  Will this fit in our 
bedroom?"
	 Bob does another double take as the digital 
woman fades away into nothingness.
	 "Uh, okay.  Be right there."  Bob heads towards 
the furniture department.
	 Isle's was one of the last department stores to 
stock physical inventory.
  Sure grocery stores stocked food items and other 
perishable goods, anything with a shelf life, but most 
things people preferred to assembled it at home.  Some 
still believed, however, goods made at the factory would 
last longer, and department stores like Isle's filled 
that need.
	   Most dwelling places were stocked with Senso 
Image and Imagination Tools.  All you had to do was 
imagine it and the tool would fabricate it.  Controlled 
items, items that needed a state approved digital 
signature to fabricate, were created by the Senso Image 
Tool with three votes from the Senso Interface Council 
(SIC).
   The Sensor Image Design company, SID, has cornered the 
market on holography, reproduction, imagination 
algorithms and manufacturing in the World economy.  The 
company motto:  "If you can't eat it, we'll make it,"  
was blazened across every promotional outlet in World.  
Employees wore the motto on their uniforms.  The higher 
ups, had a smaller motto, usually on their cuff or lapel, 
while people working in the lower echelons had it 
blazened across their backs or chests.  No one was 
allowed into SID headquarters without the motto printed 
somewhere on their uniform and guests were required to 
don overalls with the motto blazened several times on 
available surface.  You could instantly tell a person's 
position in the company by how and where the motto was 
printed on their uniform.



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2014