underwhelming dystopian futures

2018 Dec 18

5 minutes: Chewed, thought, saved.

I stuck it under my desk. It wasn't like the old days. You weren't supposed to do that then.

We had special desks now. Specifically designed to do just that, to save these things under there. Preserve their flavor and their information for when we would need them again. The top of the desk displayed a map for each piece that we kept underneath, so we could find it if we needed a refresher.

We were having math that day. The teacher rolled in a cart filled with advanced calculus, featured in four different flavors.

I had hoped one would be mango but no such luck. I wasn't happy. Why do they always give us the most boring flavors? My parents could never understand just how tedious chewing calculus was.

The Girl with All the Gifts	proletariatato	PETA becomes you, a proposed future	Where we're headed, you'll be looking backwards
The heat death of the Universe	A Pandeist Pope? We can only hope!!	Legacy Reality	there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
There must be something terribly wrong with me. Sometimes I feel like I haven't learned anything.	The best way to learn something is when someone else figures it out and tells you.	Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Baked in a Pie	Alternate Data Streams
the future is a fascinating place, for we never arrive there	Keep us away from us	What do we learn from Wordsworth's poetry? We learn not to read Wordsworth's poetry.	it doesn't make sense in the future
Can't you tell we're barrelling toward an alien future?	The Vandal's Myth	Sorry kids, this just isn't true. We just dress it up better	my memory is rising from the bottom of this ocean
Do you want to taste my memories?	a subtle flavor of me hiding	The things we can learn continue to astound us.

underwhelming dystopian futures

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