You may find it disturbing to imagine checking into hospital to be implanted with bacteria from another person's colon.
Imagine checking into your favorite hotel, or maybe just a chain motel near the airport, and finding a diary of others who had laid their heads on that pillow before you.
A cardiologist, Eurgenio Martuscelli, is quoted in La Repubblica describing the Italian system as "the most severe and rigorous in the world", adding: "it is impossible to imagine checks any more strict than the ones that are already in place".
Imagine checking in to your hotel via Surface, or ordering food on it.
Imagine checking out the latest Bond film, then being able to relive a fight sequence as Bond himself, transversing the physical space and bringing you closer to the experience and evolving your perceived experience with the film you just witnessed.
You can imagine checking in with your phone to your favorite cafe and be able to either vote on the music that is upcoming or add your favorite tracks".
Imagine checking in your hotel and finding a complimentary chicken in the room.
Imagine checking into an urgent care facility at which point the receptionist places a patch on you that takes your vitals and wirelessly transmits them to a secure, centralized repository where the doctor can review before he sees you (already done by nurse before visit).
IMAGINE checking out the new fall television schedule and finding a modern-day minstrel show set in an Alabama watermelon patch and starring black people in blackface (Savion Glover as Mantan and Tommy Davison as Sleep 'n' Eat).
Consequently, high debts associated with professional studies compel sons and daughters of poor and even middle class families to think small and imagine cashing checks as tellers, processing words, scanning groceries, fixing leaks in houses, collecting refuse, and seeking other jobs that avoid debt-ridden education.
