Enigma: The Introduction

If things go as those pretentious movies show us, and future really becomes ultratech (I'm not going Star Wars, just as intelligent as the Intel ads), we would be living in a world where everybody would be..fat definitely, and also accustomed to technology like never before, where grandfathers can actually talk to kids about what they like and not how back in their day, computers looked like..well whatever you are using now.

So let me simulate myself in..say 2500 (Provided there is no apocalypse and I live that long, or rebirthed whatever). We don't follow the old educational system of sitting in class and learning from a human anymore (Phew). Schools are like banks, and they have chips. Chips that you can insert into your inbuilt USB device which is fit onto every person the minute they are born. Every person has a five minute period called the "Techno", right after they are born. If a USB port isn't fit onto them in that period of time, they will never be up to standards with the common man because after the Techno period the body repels any combination with the enigma. Enigma is a futuristic word meaning anything related to computers or any other form of artificial intelligence. Those who fail to make it to the nearest Techdeck (Hospitals in the future are called so because of their combination of medicine with Enigma) during their Techno period fail to receive a USB port, and are branded for life. Such persons are called RTs (Technological Recluses). Just as we have a separate quota for SCs, STs and OBCs now we have a separate quota for RTs too.

So back to school. Each person starts school from age 4. For the first five years, students learn the basics like the alphabet, basic math, the human anatomy, flora and fauna from a computer interface. Oh yeah Flora and Fauna still exist in 2500 thanks to a brilliant plan proposed by 1365 Gore, a descendant of Al Gore unsurprisingly (Oh and yeah we don't have first names anymore. Birth IDs contain numbers. People refer to each other by names but they are only nicknames. Unsurprisingly, my nickname is Jiminy Billy Bob). 1365 Gore's idea however took a different route as compared to his ancestor's thesis. He created a compound Ozone-A (Or Artificial Ozone, using the 167th element discovered, called Yourmom having special transparent and impenetrable properties and combined it with the atmospheric particles present on the previous ozone layer. Global warming got owned).

So back to school. At age 9, students get their USB ports "christened". Information is, for the first time in a person's life, transferred to the human brain via a supercomputer located at every school. Of course, the supercomputers are heavily protected and any break in would not lead to imprisonment, but painful death via memory overload (Where USB ports are used to transfer memory so large the brain collapses). I guess it is safe to say vandalism is a rarity these days. The first information that the human brain receives from the supercomputer is Cx II, a programming language created by 1977 Stroustrup (Yes indeed Bjarne Stroustrup's descendant) which is universal. The language is so versatile and it has the best updating capacities that if you type in My ass itches it would actually give you a result. It is also the majorly used internet system. The students are given challenges worth a month's time, each challenge being a computer program. At the end of one month, students report back to school and submit their programs, and if the supercomputer accepts it, each of them is given more memory and a new assignment, of course of greater difficulty. Students undergo 13 grades of school, where at their 11th year, they decide which group they wish to take up: Cx II or Techdeck (Term explained previously. Seriously, remember something).

After school, students undergo specialization in any field that they wish to. They pay a fee and are given equipment. Use the equipment to build any new form of technology, and you are given a memory boost. If the technology is so useful that they decide to take it up to the CDT (Central Department of Technology), you are taken up into the local technological department and put into the research team. Fairly enough, this is the biggest goal of every tech student. The pay from CDT is sky high. CDT coaching is a very popular notion, just as IIT coaching was in those days. Of course, Apple and IBM still exist, pumping out gadgets of extreme entertainment at public friendly prices. Microsoft crashed, as AppleJuice ( Apple's new OS) cut the shit out of Windows in 2381.

The sequel Enigma revolves around the life of a guy (Whose name will be revealed in the next part. Well not really a name, but a nickname) living in 2500. Enigma will be an addition, blogged side by side with my pointless rants. I took this up because I have real fun building this story.

Suggestions and constructive criticism are welcome, as always.

Yours truly,

JBB