Pizza Boys World

The Future: the fortress city of Manchester, 2020

 

Over the past decade a new digital culture has emerged,

 

The middle classes have moved online, and off the streets.

 

The media has created fear in the masses,

people fear the outside world after a spate of terror attacks and pandemics.

 

And the Government keeps track of all this via ID cards,

geo tagging, surveillance techniques and double agents.

 

Log on…? or be shut out…

 

Over the past decade a digital divide has occurred.

 

The working class and Immigrants of the city are living on the streets, shut off from all the benefits that an online society has to offer.

 

The Media has blamed them for ‘The economic crisis’, ‘Terror attacks’, ‘Pandemics’ and ‘The offline problem’

 

And the Government sorts this problem by roaming OS Squads (Offline Squads)

 

Each night, the streets of Manchester are ‘Quarantined’ to rid the city of the ‘Offline Problem’, the city is a no-go area, except for the night shift delivery crews, who keep the middle classes in fine food, drink and luxury goods, by delivering door to door, to the middle classes, they are spat upon as working class scum, and simply called Pizza Boys…