Writing Prompt: Computer Virus
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December 2009
Seat your protagonist, or one of their friends, in front of the computer. Now… what would happen if they somehow caught a computer virus?
We all see the warnings every day about your computer catching a virus, what would happen if it caught something that could be passed to a human?
This is not a easy prompt, so I’ll give you a few ideas on how that might work: Maybe it is a new kind of interactive computer for gamers that is supposed to release scent sensations, but something bad got into the scent diffuser unit. Perhaps the computer monitor went into rapid flickers that planted a hypnotic suggestion in the mind of the person viewing it. Maybe it is some kind of magical disease in a techno magic world.
