A near-future short science fiction story where our hero, yet another blogger on the Internet, experiences a new technology that records his mind’s thoughts in a rather distressing way…
It wants an arc land gnomy light.
It was a dark sand soiree light.
sigh
It was a dark and stormy knife.
Agh. Sorry about that, dear faithful Reader. I’ve been advised to relax before firing up this new technology I’m reviewing just for you, so please bear with me for a bit.
It was dark and stormy. It was a dark and stormy night. It was a dark and stormy night. Ah, there we go. Excellent. You’re probably wondering exactly what I’m doing in this article you’ve very gracefully taken the time to read. Please let me explain.
Technology continues to amaze me. I know, cliché of me to say, but I want that cliché in this record, so all I have to do is think hard enough and bam, the words are saved to a good old traditional text file. I can see the text scrolling up, digitally imposed right in the middle of my field of vision. And where’s the text file of these thoughts? Stored in the tiny computer hidden under the skin at the base of my skull. Pretty well everybody is hardwired these days with a brainchip, but not many fortunate souls like me have this sweet little cutting edge head-app, “MindBlog”, writing down my incredibly important thoughts.
It was a gift and an assignment from my gratified editor. A very rich, extremely gratified editor due to my bestselling book in 2019, I should mention. Millions of people enjoy reading my non-fiction studies on technology and how it affects society; I make a very nice living from writing and, best of all, free techno-schwag often falls into my lap as a karmic bonus. However, I do have to chronicle my use of this thing as part of the bargain for keeping it. I always subscribe to the basic rule of always accepting an expensive gift with a smile and worrying about the minor details later.
And this MindBlog is techschweet! One of the hardest things to code in head-apps is steady and coherent thought detection and specific intent decryption. Sure, it’s easy enough to have a subroutine or two for command functions like “activate television” – and I do believe it is a man’s God-given right to be able to switch channels with only his mind – but coding a program that can write down your actual thoughts in a somewhat-literary manner in real-time is…wow.
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