"Two People"

2022 Moreno, Gus. “Two People.” Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 270-276. Appears to be original to the book. InU

An elderly woman tells the story of her and her partner’s life together and reflects upon the world they live in where the fundamental principle is that the individual “cannot be trusted” and must be “protected from yourself” (276). The main innovation is the 3.0 Act that “requires every American male to undergo a vasectomy the year of his tenth birthday. The only way to get the vasectomy reversed is to graduate from high school with at least a 3.0 grade point average” (272). Technology is used to “objectively” make decisions about many aspects of life.