1 Installing
An old man was sitting in the waiting room of an operation room, he is around late-sixties and is wearing a hospital gown. Even with his age and strange attire, he still has a refined air about him. As he is waiting and reading a magazine another man comes in, much younger in his mid-thirties, dressed in a doctors gown with a mask and rubber gloves.
The doctor says, "Old Man Drake, are you sure you want to go through with the procedure? I know you are excited and treat this as your baby, but with your age, along with this being the first time this type of operation is being done on a human, there may be complications."
The old man slowly puts down his magazine and looks at the doctor, "Little Matthew, once we get this through human testing, and a successful attempt, we will be able to market this, we already have many investors foaming at the mouth ready to give us their money. I have 100% trust in the bio chip, and you as a brain surgeon of many years."
The Doctor, Matthew, sighs and nods his head at the old mans stubbornness. He waves his hand towards the operation room. The old man stands up and grabs an ornate metal cane next to him and makes his way towards the room, at a slow, yet measured pace.
The old man enters the room and, his cane is taken by one nurse, while another comes and helps him on the operating table. The doctor comes in shortly after the old man. his eyes flash as he looks at the old man on the table, then determination fills them.
The doctor motions to the nurses to put him under, and begins the operation.
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My eyes go dark, this may be the last time I ever open them, yet I do not care, for whenever I think of the thing I invented and spent many years of my life bringing into being, I cannot help but feel giddy like a child receiving a new toy.
I, Andrew Drake, along with a team of well respected scientist, have created a bio chip, a computer for your brain. Through much trial and error, we have finally developed two final designs, One for public commerce which is nice but very basic, and a very heavily modified custom version, equal to even the best quantum computers.
I myself spent many years working on an A.I. to help me govern the bio chip, for I am old and am sometimes forgetful. It will be unique to me because I have not leaked the source code, nor even shown anyone it yet.
I agreed to be the first to do the operation, because many others have families they need to care about. I am old, I have outlived my wife, and my son is more than old enough to take care of himself. I have written my will just in case.
After what feels like seconds, I am blinded by a bright white light above my head, I feel groggy and I say, "Damn, did I finally go to heaven?" This elicits a few chuckles from the doctor and nurses, it was just the ceiling light above my head.
I turn my head to Doctor Matthew, "Was it a success?" My heart is calm but my mind is running frantically. Doctor Matthew smiles and says, "Yes old man, Yes it was." This is followed by tons of check ups, and many logic test to see if I turned stupid.
Thankfully, I did not. A week later I am sent home with a clean bill of health. I get home and then start to work, adding my A.I. So that I will have many things setup. A day later, it is up and running and I get the first message!
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Welcome! Please choose name:
Name: Andrew Drake
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Host Registered: Andrew Drake
Preforming Body scan...
Scan complete...
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Name: Andrew Drake
Status: Healthy
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Preforming Memory Scan....
Scan Complete...
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Sync: 100%
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My chip, the special one has many added features that the normal ones do not, For example, cutting edge scanner technology, and a using a very peculiar process, we managed to be able to have a storage of a gegobyte, in such a small space, naturally only one can be produced over ten years, where I have the only one, and a second one is in progress.
Naturally I could store the whole internet if I so choose, but I won't, because the downloading would take longer than I have left to live. I start with having my personal library stored and uploaded. This only takes a couple hours, The scanners have a range of around one kilometer, pretty large, but hey, it is great. It does not need for me to open the books and completely scan the books.
I have over five hundred thousand books, varying from simple dictionaries, to advanced medical books. I would have more, but I limited only to non-fiction books, and some of the more famous literary works. There are even simple books describing how to make a fire, and other simple survival needs.
My colleagues would always joke about my book collection, and call me Thoth. Yet I would always joke that I don't have the chip yet, the knowledge isn't mine yet. Now I have it, at the tip of my mine whenever I need.
But sadly it is not completely true, it is like having a search engine in your brain, you have it there, but it takes a second to find it, and you cant formulate your own thoughts from it like normal memories and knowledge.
I will still have to read it like a book, but now it is all on the tip of my finger, with a thought and a few seconds, any topic I want will be brought up. Over the next few days I download some E-books for leisure and some other books to supplement the database.
The news has been blowing up recently, some conspiracies about people disappearing in bright blue lights, it isn't too wide because there have only been some small cases of less noticeable people. People call it a hoax, some blame aliens.
I personally do not pay it much attention, but recently it has been going crazy because the president of the United States, during the State of the Union address, was surrounded in blue light and "Abducted" I front of many people, leading to mass panic. This lead to serious investigations into other situations, and all of the people who disappeared, have been reported to have bouts of dizziness and see "Blue Squares with squiggly white lines."
The numbers of people disappearing seem rather low for now though and the patterns as of who are targeted, are seemingly random. A month passes, and no one else have reported anything. I have been in the meantime reading personal books, while downloading some research assistants.
I've bought a drone and I have an overlay of its camera over my eyes, having the feeling of watching things from a birds eye view is kinda cool. At this moment I am hit with a bout of dizziness. I see blue squares with white squiggly lines. My heart drops, this has been denoted as a death sentence, no one knows what happens after.
I have my bio chip replay what just happened, and I am hit with dizziness as the same blue squares appear again. I still cannot see them, it is as if looking at them is what causes the dizziness. I know that this means there is almost no hope to change it in the limited twenty-four hour timeline.
I start making the calls, sadly my son is unreachable, He is currently in France right now conducting a business deal, and my calls won't connect through. I hope I can see him one last time before I go. I go and sit in my room in my favorite reading chair.
I close my eyes and wait for tomorrow.
