Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Creative Short Story Writing


Message:
Self-activation set on 3013/4/5: Activated
Subject: our past, our mistakes, your future_

  Ever since the big day, the day when the King had approved on the initiation of the neurotic chip implantation project, every newborn baby was embedded with a chip containing all known information of mankind, with its performance solely depending on the ability of the child’s brain to process and absorb it. Instantly, a portion of humanity became tremendously smarter as majority of the young kids managed to absorb all the information before the age of 10.
  But then, there were the rebellions, strongly standing their grounds on the point of view of the human nature, on how education should be carried out by nature. There was war back then- they won, parting the internationalized world into two. Generations by generations, the gap between us had distanced. By the calculation and analysis of the statistics, with the equation of [(9dx-3ex-294j) 34z2/3Z.f(x)], our rate of development had formed the great Hyperion, leaving the rebellions far behind in the slum.
  Lurking through the peaceful streets, a father and his little boy solving higher-level non-Euclidean geometrics together, the little boy smiling broadly at his father to his victory for completing the complex equation before his father, the sound of processed iridium dropping into the storage chamber accompanied by the continuous tapping of buttons, the fingers of the worker currently in charge flying all over the control panel, the whole scenery was an artwork, the uniqueness of Hyperion.
  Right in the middle of the street, there sat a boy playing with his toy car. Stuck out like an ink blot on an artwork, pushing the car back and fro while staring blankly into the thin air with his wide eyes, his presence was a disgrace to the image of the country, the country of the elites, judging by his inability to master such simple concepts of life unlike his other insolent brain development partners, including the little boy who was playing with his father a moment ago.
  Xenon, the boy, was smaller in size than anyone else of his age. As he grew up, he became more and more of a threat to this country. Naughty and filled with mischief, he destroyed the algorithm of the country by his actions, from stealing food when he was 15, running over supply stations while escaping from the drones, hiding in small places unreachable to the drone to smuggling our country’s valuable currency when he was an adult.
  When he was finally arrested, he was taken to the King for judgment as we had no idea of what to do with him due to the reason that it had never happened before. After the oral debates were made between the King and the defendant, in result to his low qualifications in the examinations and his absurd behavior, he had been exiled from Hyperion under the category of ineffectual contribution to the country.
  While escorting him out of the walls of the city, I had witnessed an event that surprised me. Subject Xenon had displayed a behavior that I had never seen before. He had suddenly talked to the guards in a loud voice at the edge of the door before being an official outcast while displaying excessive tensing of facial muscles that expresses certain emotions that are unknown to us Hyperions.
  The equilibrium in the infrastructure of the country had been restored, and all regained order and peace. I never expected to see Xenon again as I question his presence on this world in the harsh environment outside the walls where there was no news of him from our observation stands too.
  The code red was triggered after a few years. In accompaniment of the security alarms blaring in the background, the town hall echoed with a repetitive mechanical voice of “Sending out all defensive drones”. All important authorities are escorted to observational safe house to ensure our safety, including me. With our fear, we saw the drones, going down one by one in large fumes of black smoke followed by deafening booms. 
  Through the computed stimulation carried out by the computer, by the forecast of us being defeated, drones are set to retreat mode, flying away from the battlefield. Out of the black smokes, there were silhouettes of people, walking towards the door. As they advanced towards us, we can see that they are holding firearms that have the properties of Hyperion technology but however, not present in our technology and taking the lead, a familiar small, shrouded guy with an oversized firearm, Xenon.
  With a few thunderous bangs against the safe house door, “We finally met again”, I said to him, “Kill me for revenge”. One of his fellow comrades took a step out and pointed his weapon at me, but was stopped by Xenon.
“I had come with peace and no intention of violence to make my point”
Stammering, I took up the courage to ask him,
“How… did you manage to create such weapons with technology concepts so similar to ours, providing the fact that we have no weapon technology?” 
  When he replied, that was when all became cleared- “I was never implanted with a chip, I had followed up with you by the natural form of education, understanding and getting concepts and also learning how to generate new applications from the learnt concepts.”
  I was shocked, why didn’t I think of that? He looked at me as if he knew what I was thinking of, “It is because you are programmed not to! To achieve eternal peace and order, there was totally no input of the knowledge of violence in your chip database, moreover the understanding of the emotion anger.” Immediately, the atmosphere became silent and serious, with the Hyperions reflecting on themselves.
 The outbreak of the silence was caused by a firm and calm order tone. The King, his majesty who remained silent for all these times, had finally placed down an order. “We need to reset.”  
  In his last speech, he mentioned that our dependence on technology had overwhelmed our natural concept of life. We are slowly being manipulated into computed programs with only one purpose without our own strings of thoughts due to the influence, following a sole predefined system, closing the definition of humans to the term “Living Dead”.
  This message is set out as a warning to our kind in the future; there are some laws of nature that can’t be replaced by technology as we are the ones who created technology.
  Hence, never ever use technology to replace the time and efforts of human in learning something new. By reset, all technology will be erased except for this message, leaving only the humans at their basic life forms, to redevelop from scratch, in a new direction. Good luck, fellow descendants.
Digitally signed,
Lerox,
Head Advisor of the Hyperion King
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Resetting by 3, 2, 1_                  

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