The Switch Foundation, where the mind is immortal.

In a future world the elite of humanity live in isolation from the rest of the world, living in a luxury unimaginable to the masses. There is no social ladder to climb, you are born elite or you struggle in a world stripped of it's wealth.

Only The Switch Foundation has any dealings with the larger world, an educational charity that provides full scholarships to hundred of children every year. The chosen children are taken to study at large academies and will be set up for a life far beyond anything their parents could give them.

What isn't known by the masses is how those children are chosen and what they are really being chosen for.

The academies take in children from the age of eight and health and fitness plays an equal role to education. The children, both male and female are moulded to become perfect human specimens. Chosen for their looks and health rather than their brains, Switch academies produce hundreds of perfect eighteen year olds every year for their elite clients.

As the elite people of the world withdrew from the wider society taking the bulk of the worlds wealth with them the one thing they found that money couldn't buy and science couldn't provide was a way to stop themselves growing old. Medical science couldn't prevent every disease or repair fully an injured body.

What The Switch Foundation did discover was how to map and transfer the human mind, everything from emotions to memory could be uploaded from the mind onto a computer. Everything that made that person who they were could be stored away so the elite would never truely die.
It was then that The Switch Foundation expanded it's charitable academies to produce more perfect subjects. If you could upload a persons mind into a computer then you could download it again to a new, younger, perfect body. With hundreds of pefect bodies produced each year by the academies the elites could trade in their bodies as they wished and at a price set by Switch.

The Switch Foundation, where the mind is immortal.