The Marchuk Effect: Human or AI

In a world where feeling is a malfunction, one man refuses to be fixed.

The Continuum calls it progress. A neural chip at the base of the skull. Optimized cognition. Perfect compliance. The end of grief, fear, rage, and every other inefficiency that makes a person human.

Jesse Marchuk said no.

At twenty-eight, he is one of the last unchipped people on Earth, hunted, exhausted, and running out of places to hide. But Jesse carries something the Continuum cannot quantify: in his presence, their p...