
Record too many negative ratings though… you get branded a “neg”, and big guys with guns appear to see to it you’re never heard from again.

As long as you’re recording positive ratings with people, you’re all good.

The key element of the story is the “phera-tech”… a system that attaches to the M-Band and “rates” the compatibility between two people (expressed as a percentage score), by reading their pheromones. The story is set in a subtly dystopian near future America, where “M-Bands” and “M-Chips” – the next step in the evolutionary ladder from the Smart Phone – are government mandated, measuring, recording and even controlling the lives of every citizen on Earth.

Now imagine that you not only willingly let them do it, but you actually pay them to. Imagine a world where everything you do, every step you take, every heartbeat, every interaction is monitored by government-sanctioned corporations.
