Guide for unexpected time travellers

Cafe Society
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MODERN LEGAL RIGHTS & OBLIGATIONS:

  1. By lifting you out of the time stream before your presumptive death, The Time Travel Institute technically created the present “you”. All rights reserved.

  2. “The Thought Police” is not a euphanism. See the pamphlet “Mental Hygiene for a Telepathic World”.

  3. The Public Domain was auctioned off in the year 2033. Check all relevent copyright notices before quoting, referring to, or thinking about* (outside of fair-usage) any formerly uncopywritten material [*see 2.]

  4. Carefully read and understand all disclaimers before agreeing to the installation of any neuroware.

  5. Registration for the Organ Draft within 72 hours of your arrival from the past is mandatory. Remember, Universal Health Care means everyone has to do their part(s).

  6. Transparancy is the basis of modern society. You do not have a “right” to Privacy anymore than you had your ancestors’ right to plunder and enslave anyone weaker than themselves.

  7. Any object you damage or destroy could be a sentient piece of computronium. Observe the Five Courtesies in your interaction with non-mobiles.

  8. DON"T SIGN ANYTHING without legal representation. Public Lawbots can be applied for at <end of page>

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If you see and meet yourself on the street, don’t panic. Before you were jumped here into your future, you were cloned. Not because you were particularly exemplary, but because you seemed simple enough that if things went wrong in the cloning process, you wouldn’t be missed.

And the many clones of you have been a boon to the fast food cheap labor pool.

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As well as to the menu.