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Thanks to your support I won the title of “Official Blogger for the 2015 Eye on Earth Summit in the United Arab Emirates.” This blog post was written for their blogging competition.

“A better world through knowledge and information” scrolls across the kitchen window-screen while a cute little brown-skinned girl stares at her device among a green field full of dandelions. A public service announcement for uploading your aerosol readings for the day to the Global Air Quality Index, drums on in the background as Loreto grabs her grocery bags.

“Do we need anything else from the store?” Loreto yells across her two room pod.

“Maybe fish?” Mica replied.

Loreto steps outside onto the sidewalk, past the connected community vertical garden bursting with tomatoes, and into the blaring sun. Placing her sunglasses over her eyes she calls one of the electric autonomous fleet cars to drive her to the grocery store. The car pulls up to the curbside and in the back seat she tells the computer where to go while her favorite oldies song “Howlin’ for you” by the Black Keys faintly plays in the background.

At the grocery store she wanders down the fish aisle and contemplating a tuna steak tonight she extrudes a silver probe from her device and touches it gently to the fish lying on a bed of ice in front of her. Her device flashes as the genetic bar-code is read and a picture of Bluefin tuna appears.