The last lie ever told was on March 15th, 2087, at 11:47 PM Eastern Standard Time.
It was spoken by a seven-year-old girl named Emma Patterson, who whispered to her mother that she hadn't eaten the cookies from the jar. The neural implantation procedure would be completed in thirteen minutes, and with it, the dawn of what historians would call the Age of Absolute Truth.
Twenty-five years later, we are still learning to live with the consequences.
This is the story of what happened when humanity got exactly what it thought it wanted.