Dystopie

London, England, 2058, John is 60 years old. He hasn't travelled for a long time! And yet he has visited many countries, especially in his youth. He knows France well! England even better since he was born there! All that is far away now! Who has the right to travel? And even to work? Positive DNA but not others, not negative DNA. His mother was right!

England, 2018. John is 20 years old. He lives in a small town in the South West of England. He is happy. He works, he sees his friends and he has started to make nice trips. He hopes to move to Canada in a few months. His parents are working. His mother is researching his French family. The other day he told her:

"Mum, there is a site that helps people find their origins, you have to do a DNA test! It's easy and cheap!

- I don't know, you have to see! »

At that time everyone wanted to know their origins and genealogy sites that tested your origins using a sample of your saliva were swarming all over the web. To know where you came from, to know our people of origin, our tribe. It was within everyone's reach! "Send us samples of your saliva, we'll tell you everything! "Indeed they told us everything! Even what we didn't want to know, but times were changing, the virtual world and social networks were disconnecting us from reality, from our relatives, from our friends. We had to hold on to our roots and to do that we had to find them.

John remembers, his mother had looked at a few genealogy sites, she quickly understood.

"No," she told him!

"Forget it! People will regret it! Never do these DNA tests. »

She had already understood! She had continued her research, meticulously, simply, by making contact with her family in France and for her son's 30th birthday, she had offered him her family tree. He had been grateful to her for it. He had gone to live in France for a while. He had seen his family, he knew his roots.

He had followed his mother's advice. He didn't need to do the DNA tests, because thanks to his mother, he knew where he came from.

It all started around the year 2050. The government took control and decided who could travel and who couldn't. The problems started with the insurance companies, a new global law: only those who tested positive for DNA, without any disease, were allowed to travel. The others, for negative DNA, had to abstain unless they could pay an astronomical sum. Travel was banned and then, over time, companies began to recruit their staff on the basis of their DNA. It was simple, genealogy sites had sold all the DNA information they had to insurance companies, corporations and then governments around the world. They got together and decided that each person would have a microchip implanted with their biological and social history. Everybody was on file but not John, who had never sent in his DNA. He was free. He no longer existed for this society, but he was a free man. He had created his own network to survive, a network made up of people who were resistant to the digital world. Every day his network was growing, small groups had resisted the temptation of a hundred percent

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