Somewhere in 3020....
Somewhere in 3020....
It was a cold autumn morning. The sun was shining on the 'Hawking Senior Secondary School and Hostel', charging the solar panels on top of the four story building. Chris had just woke up in his dorm room and the first sight he saw in the morning made him shout on top of his voice "Can you please stop that! or atleast turn down the volume?" In front of him was his friend Robox73 dancing on his favorite song on the highest volume his in-built speakers could reach. Well, he was a robot or more precisely an artificial intelligence with features no human had. Did I forget to tell you that it was the year 3020? I didn't I?
Chris pulled up his blanket and tried to block his ears by putting his fingers in them. Robox73 or as Chris called him Rob was the best dancer had ever seen but too much of everything is bad. His creator must be either crazy or in love with music to download one terabyte of songs in his hard disc.
Chris got up in anger and by looking at his face Rob interpreted that if he didn't stop the music now something bad would happen so he listened to his artificial gut and stopped the music. Chris was staring at him, but he had no reason to be angry at Rob anymore so he calmed down.
Rob looked at Chris and informed him "Oh! I forgot to tell you last night, I received a message from Mr. Pepperpots that our history lesson has been rescheduled from one thirty to ten-thirty in the morning." Rob just gave Chris another reason to be mad at him. Chris looked at his new alarm clock on his side table and said suppressing his anger "Rob what is wrong with you? Did I not tell you to wake me up early as I have incomplete history homework? It is already ten. What am I supposed to do? I have to bathe, get ready, and finish a 3 page report on phone age. You have an eidetic memory and you can't remember
anything for me?''
Rob scratched his head (not that he wanted to, it was something he picked up from human habits) and said “Oh! I forgot that you cannot just mail your homework via the server or use telekinesis to send the homework to Mr.Pepperpots like David.
David Copperfield was another student of the school. He was one of the members of the genetically altered families.The Copperfields were among the many scientist families whose ancestors had altered their DNA to produce quirks or supernatural powers in the future generations. David was still young and was not known of the many things he could do. Since the Copperfeilds were very well known scientists who had done a lot for society, David was often treated sp
ecially by the teachers. David was not very comfortable with this and it felt weird to him.
Just as Chris had stopped making faces and calling Rob words like dumb, David entered the room with a happy face on. David was super excited. He said trying to stop smiling “You will not believe what the Principal just put on the notice board.”
“There is a talent search competition tomorrow and the winner along with any two friends of his will get an all expensed paid trip to the phone age! And to prepare for tomorrow the teachers have decided to give today an off!” Rob and David started dancing like crazy and Chris could not stop smiling as he didn’t have to do his homework. All three of them knew what they had to perform to win. Rob with no doubt was going to dance, David along with being a brilliant student was an amazing card magician and as for Chris, he was going to play the new electronic keyboard he had got for Christmas. They practiced their skills for the entire day. Time passed faster than the new technological missile train that connected The United States of America to Japan. The day had come. First up was Chris. He played the toughest and most elegant symphonies he knew and impressed the judges. After Jacob’s juggling routine was Rob’s turn. He danced on the oldest and most sensational song he knew. He was amazing but his love for dancing was so much, that he refused to come down from the stage and ended up talking rudely to one of the judges. He was immediately disqualified. After a series of other performers, It was finally David’s turn. He was the one who could not have been beaten. He made the judges pick a card and god knows how he had the same card in an envelope which was handed by him to the other judges.
The judges had made the decision. The host had the name of the winner in his hands. When the host announced the result everyone was confused or more precisely angry. The winner was none other than Jacob with his juggling routine! Jacob came towards the other contestants with his trophy and started teasing everyone. He started dancing in front of Rob to add fuel to fire. Everyone was pissed. But Jacob’s teasing nature and everyone’s anger did not last much.
Next week a video had gone viral on social media. Jacob had seen a real dog, a species that had been extinct since long on his trip to the phone age. After seeing the wild dog he got too scared and peed his pants. It was scene worth watching so all three of them watched it endlessly every day whenever was Jacob was around until he was sorry for teasing them.
The End