Memories With Maya - Clyde Dsouza {ALG3RiON}

"EMOTIONS ARE LIKE A VIRUS, a common cold...disrupting the flow of logic in the mind." Daniel reminds himself.

Dan's work involves creating commercially viable AR solutions. The recession and an explosion of data-cops is drying out his streams of income.
He turns to close friend, Krish, a researcher in Artificial Intelligence, in the hope that they can come up with ideas for the Entertainment market. His girlfriend, Maya, and her family return to their homeland after her father passes away.

Dan and Maya continue their relationship via Dirrogates (Digital Surrogates), experiencing human touch through haptics. Krish gets a job at the prestigious A.I.R.I. Using AIRI's lab, Krish and Dan, create an advanced visor with Augmented Intelligence built in.
They dub it "Wizer".
A Board member at AIRI sees potential in the Wizer other than what Dan and Krish have in mind.

At a test in a nightclub, things go wrong... Can the Wizer "insure memories" and be a catalyst to accelerate the journey toward eventual Singularity?

Cutting through genres, Memories With Maya touches on today's hard science focus: Artificial Intelligence, the Singularity, Transhumanism and Augmented Reality and how they will affect human emotions, relationships and evolution. The story also has enough 'hard' romance to keep every kind of audience, satisfied.