Green earth is no more a space for life. With the population explosion of the humans reaching 900 trillions, combined with the hazardous environment he created, time has come for yet another migration. There is no stone, left unturned by the Homo sapien. And the stones include, those of the meteors, comets, planets, asteroids and all the heavenly bodies existing in every parallel parts of the universe. He crossed galaxies, created human sustainable environment and finally, a civilization and established himself in the various parts of the universe. It was all happening in the beginning of the 41st century.
Now, let’s see the second generation of life in this new era. Smriti, celebrated her 20rth birthday, a couple of days back. She is the beautiful daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Milka Singh, the pioneer, who created the planet TROYGEN, which is the part of the universe with well-off people like Mr.Milka Singh. The planet is all but Luxury. Smriti is filled with ecstasy as she got her admissions in UNIV, the prestigious education planet, which is dedicated for the purpose of providing high standard education to students from all the planets.
Every human has a Brain Reader (BR) embedded in his brain once he his born with a unique number for identification. Smriti's BR number is 22024088MS. A brain reader is placed at the entry point of the heap of neurons into the brain. It works on the principle of Techlepathy. Techlepathy combines telepathy and technology, and hence the name Techlepathy. Telepathy is a concept in which communication is based on mind-to-mind format. Our brain is the best processor in terms of Intelligence is concerned. When the brains communicate, it means the top notch intellectuals communicate directly. All the signals emerging from the brain is in the form of pulses which send instruction to any part of the human body through the wires referred as neurons. The BR receives these pulses, converts them into digital format and sends appropriate control signals.
For eg. If I wish to switch on the TV, my BR senses this, converts the information into digital format, and instructs the TV. Hence time lag of interference of human parts is avoided, which is crucial in 41 st century. The BR thus stores each and every instruction from the brain, to see, to smell, to hear, ever thing is recorded for future purposes. In short, the BR is a self Surveillance Black Box of a human.
Troygen has the credit of holding the position as one of the most powerful and influential planets in the universe. This living zone created under the leadership of Mr.Milka Singh has only 4% of the total human population of the universe. It has no other species other than the Homo sapien. Each troygener enjoys luxury to the extreme. For eg: he wears a bio-dress at the time of his birth. This dress adjusts itself to the needs of the owner. He can control the size, shape, color and the texture, everything with the help of his BR. This dress is fabricated with nano-organic compounds with elastic properties and controlled by the BR's signal. If the owner wants it to be a red T-shirt and a blue jean, the BR transfers the memory image in the owner's brain into digital form and gives control to the artificial neurons grown inside him. These in turn give the respective illumination to the organic compounds and make his attire.
In short, the BR of a Troygener creates everything a human wants, in the form of illusions. If he wants a cold coffee, or a ride in his space shuttle, a tennis session, everything, he has it. The BR creates illusions to his brain and records in them and creates a life of virtual reality in him. He forgets humanity, forgets feelings, forgets how to live in reality. Smriti, like her father had a great vision, in incorporating this 8th sense, the feelings into the BR, the 7th sense being, illusion. It is this desire that made her choose, ILLUSION engineering in UNIV.
At a distant part of the universe, lies VOYGER, a planet known for its serene living. It has a mix of both luxury and humanity. Voyger was carefully civilized by its creators, keeping in mind that “not any more nature should be a prey for anthropogenic activities”. Voyger has green fields, gardens, and beautiful valleys, species made of chemical combinations for sustaining life in the planet and to help in bringing bio-diversity. The people in VOYGER were in fact the happiest people of the universe.
Santhosh, son of Mr. and Mrs.Stanes is a 20 yr old lad with bright ambitions for his future. He is a tall, well built man with astounding characters like his father, who was a pioneer in eco-system development in VOYGER. It is this involvement of his dad, that induced him a fervent wish to create sustainable human-friendly eco systems in all part of the universe. Santhosh had a dream of creating more and more bio-species, suitable for each planet so that humans should know how to live with feelings towards their environment. He got his admin in the UNIV for the course on BIOSYSTEM engineering. Even Voygers had BR's embedded in their brains. But they used it for education and communication purposes. The BR's lacked the 7th sense of illusion which the Troygeners possessed.
Like the planets, TROYGEN and VOYGER, humans also created humanoid planets like TELEVISTA and UNIV. While the entire communication network across all the planets is governed by TELEVISTA, the UNIV served as the head of EDUCATION. Similarly he had mobile medicine comets, space stations installed as transport hubs etc. the BR controls all the senses of the human body required for communication. If X from Voyger wishes to call Y from Troygen, first the image of Y appears aas a flash in X's brain. This instinct is recognized by the BR which in turn opens up a visual semi-transparent screen in front of his eyes, with Y's details. The instinct to call Y is recognized by the BR and the corresponding digital code is sent to TELEVISTA. At this point, the BR of Y is activated indicating via a similar screen in front of Y's eyes with X's details. Once he acknowledges, the link is established and communication streaming takes place as though X and Y are sitting side-by-side. All that X wants to say, before they reach the mouth neuron is captured by BR and transmitted. Similarly whatever Y wishes to hear is recognized by the BR and bypassed directly to the brain before reaching the ears. Thus no mouth, ears and eyes are necessary for communication.
Both Smrithi and Santhosh do not know each other before. Both of them are from two corners of the universe, with different ways of life and standards of living. This story is all about the life of these two people. Will they meet? Will their contradictory ambitions come true? Are feelings something which is sensed by the man-made tissues? For all the answers, read further.
UNIV is a virtual university planet which is completely controlled by Humanoids. The students can sit in their respective planets, activate the UNIV software embedded in their BR's and access the vast library, listen to lectures, carry out their research works with the help of humanoids, by just sitting in their rooms. College days started with a bang and all the students are full of excitement. Their anxiety increased lot more since “RENEISSANCE 41”, the annual cultural fiesta of UNIV is coming soon.
The first year students have to pick a dance partner from any other department and give a dance presentation in the virtual auditorium. The best jodi will be awarded BEST DANCE JODI award at the end. Both Santhosh and Smriti were searching with gleaming eyes on the list of students through the college e-log book. Both of them couldn't find the right partner they were looking for, and day by day, their anxiety combined with their excitement. With most of their friends having started their virtual dance practice sessions, both of them were upset since they were without partners.
Finally, the day dawned, when the dance floor was filled with cheerful youth, dressed in their best attire, who started dancing in coherence with the music. Santhosh and Smriti, filled up their last hopes and scanned the students list for one last time. To their surprise, both of them saw each other’s profile, sent their invite at the same instance. In no time, Santhosh's BR activated and established the link between him and Smriti. He extended his hand and said, “Smriti, shall we dance !” in an ultimate passion that no girl can refuse. She extended her hand as though she was completely mesmerized by his legacy. Both of them, did not practice even for a second, but directly took to the dance floor. They have never spoke with each other before, but some unique rhythm sounded quietly in them, which induced a feeling as though they knew each other from the time of Adam Eve. They danced in complete synchronization with the music, completely hypnotized into the music. This eventually got them, the BEST DANCE JODI award.
All that was happening all this time, is nothing but an illusion for Smriti. Because she is brought up that way. To her, life is something formulated by her Brain Reader and produced to her conscious mind as illusion. She could not recognize what her inner heart says and what her BR says. But to Santhosh, all that has happened now, is an entirely new experience. Because he had never entered the world of virtual reality before. Until now, he was able to distinguish the love and affection he showed to his surroundings, to his environment through his heart. But a virtual reality through his BR is completely new for him. He had used his BR only for communicating with someone, but never for dancing with a beautiful girl. For the first time, he felt “A STRANGE FEELING” through his Brain Reader.
Santhosh knew that he is in love with Smriti. But he couldn't express it to her. He was still in a confused state to know whether Smriti felt it through her heart or considered it as yet another illusion. Days passed by. Santhosh was only accumulating to himself, all his love he had for his Angel. He was scared whether he should propose now, or wait for her.
Smriti started to research on her ambition in depth. She completely forgot Santhosh, since it was only yet another illusion to her. She started her research on how to embed the 8th sense into the BR. To her, feelings, like a soothing touch, a father's hug, a short nap on mother's lap all are related to skin. She felt that heart has nothing to do with them and hence these so called feelings can be embedded into the brain reader. To the contrary, she could not embed these within the BR.
Smriti started to think deeply about why she couldn't embed this. Suddenly, the dance with Santhosh flashed into her mind. She wanted to analyze what happened that day. Since it was through the BR, it recognized the brain impulse and played the sequence which was formulated that night in her mind.
She started to talk to herself. Santhosh touched me. He held my hands, gripped my hip and made me dance with him. But did I see them? Or did I feel them? I was sitting in a room and experiencing the dance. Did I really dance? No. Did I feel his touch? No. Did I see it? Yes. I saw what I am seeing right now. But once everything was over, his image shifted to my unconscious brain. Then where is the feeling?
She was thinking about all these for a long time without any answer and finally settled on asking Santhosh. Now the BR of Smriti got triggered and established the link with Santhosh. Once Santhosh recognized this, he was jumping with joy with excitement. He acknowledged the call and said “Hi Smriti”. Smriti knew that there is some unique difference that exists, when the same words are uttered by someone else. But is it the neurons that really bring this feeling? Or something else; she couldn't understand. She gradually started talking with him and explained her curiosity. Santhosh was filled with overwhelming joy since he visualized that Love is hiding deep inside Smriti and needs to be triggered.
He clearly explained to her, stating that, a chip created by man, can only act as a servant to a Human. It cannot dominate him. It is designed to think in a manner by the way it is programmed to think. But it cannot feel. It is the very necessity of every human to understand how to live with his society. He should come out of the virtual world of his own and interact with the nature. A collective growth of human life is indispensable without collective development of his eco-system.
All these words made Smrithi feel something that she had never experienced before. Is this Love? She couldn't bear her fear anymore and truncated the call. She dipped her heads into her hands and started asking herself. “What happened to me?” am I in love with Santhosh ? I am. Is It from my inner consciousness. Yes. Should I tell him? No. what if he considered it as just a conversation? All these questions damped her mind.
Santhosh decided to see her straight and propose. Whatever she says, love is love, and thats true for him. He grabbed his passport, packed up his travel bag and took his shuttle to Troygen. He located Smriti's room and went their straight. Smriti got surprised to see him for the first time. Yes. Until now, he was existing only in her virtual world. But now, Santhosh was standing right in front of her. She decided to propose to him the very instant. And just like the dance invite they sent in their virtual world, both of them proposed at the same instant. He took her hand and danced in reality. Now she felt the true feeling of love without the barrier of technological inventions.
We are living in the brink of 21st century right now. But we still have the same feelings, responsibilities and passion which our ancestors had. Machines are all created only by we humans to assist our living. They should not hinder our links with the nature. We are born to feel. We cannot make machines feel. Even in the 400th century, if man exists, he will definitely LOVE. If he forgets to love his nature, he sows the seeds for his extinction.
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