Chapter Nineteen: 'BUMP'-ing'Bump' was, on Eulin at least, the way people met and 'hooked up'. It was a feature integrated into the 'personal communications and transactions unit', or P.C.T.U, that each citizen carried with them at all times. O.P figured they were a kind of smart phone. But they were in fact much much more. As in O.P's dream, you could set it up to automatically exchange as much information with people you 'bump'-ed into as you desired. It was used for all transactions, and all interactions with government authorities. It was your I.D card, bank card, driver’s license, door key, and 'cloud' interface all in one.
It was actually Renshaw who explained the whole deal of 'Bump' to O.P. Renshaw had come home excited from one of his group sessions in the school. These were re
