I was looking at people who were using a touch screen monitor, with a stylus in each hand. As I became lucid I started to ask questions about the technology.
me: "What can this monitor do that the monitors I am familiar with from my world can't do? I'm familiar with pressure sensitive screens and ones that could sense where they were being pressed in more than one place."A man went to the back and reached into the monitor. At first his hands just blotted out portions of the picture or distorted the colors, but he managed to find a way to make it ripple in a chaotic pattern.
me: "That's interesting, what kind of mechanism makes the image on this screen?"man: "It's composed of a special steam that viruses were engineered to make."
me: "How were these viruses created?"
man: "Oh it was *easy*, just adjust genome #484,323, ..."
He rattled off some more numbers.
me: "Hold on, I can't remember all these numbers."man: "No, I'm joking, I actually have no idea how it was done. Here, you should talk to someone else."
He introduced me to a second man, to whom I repeated my questions. He said that before he could answer he'd have to see my license. While I tried to figure out what that was all about I awoke.
