Chapter Seventeen
YEAR 2106
The morning started like any other for Dr. Matthew Becker. He awoke, showered, and got ready for work. Hugged his two adolescent children goodbye and watched them head outside to catch the bus to school. His son, Ralph, was fourteen years old, and his daughter, Deb, was sixteen. Within a few minutes, he watched the fully automated bus pull up out front. On a signal from the navigational computer, the door opened to allow the students on. As Matthew watched the bus drive away, he thought back to his youth, when there had been so much debate about allowing robobuses to transport students. It took several years for the technology to mature, but now it was as common as all the other automated cars on the road.
The bus scanned the implanted biochip in each student
