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- [ The Infinite Wisdom Chip ] [ By The GNN ]
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- "THE INFINITE WISDOM CHIP"
- by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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- "If a chip can feed your brain, you will probably
- never have to go to school."
- (The Chief)
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- William broke the silence: he threw the tea cup into the wall. The crash
- woke me up from my thoughts.
- "William, please..." said Carl.
- "I can't stand it! I can't stand it!" said the little man, whom I did
- not recognize. Before, he had been William, the calm and quiet little
- mathematics professor. Now, he was someone else, it seemed.
- William rose from his chair as if he was about the leave our little
- five-men tea party. He behaved very strangely. I tried to figure out if he
- showed a sign of some form of psychological distress. But my knowledge gave
- me no answer. It surprised me.
- "This..." William began, "is not...", he continued, "... human!" he
- concluded. "This is insane!"
- No one replied. Everyone tried to figure out what was wrong. But their
- knowledge gave them no answers either. We all felt very confused.
- "I don't have an answer to why William behaves the way he does..." Carl,
- the stocky engineer, said.
- "Me neither", I said.
- "Not a clue", sighed John (the thin economist).
- "Pitch dark up here", mumbled Larry (the unemployed philosopher).
- William began to scream. I felt depressed. This is not what I had
- expected from the evening. Instead of a nice little chat with a few friends,
- I now saw one of them scream in agony while tea and sugar slowly made its way
- down the wall-paper. If I only knew why!
- "Gosh," said Carl.
- "Strange," said John.
- "Insane!" screamed William.
- I wondered if I were to call the police. My knowledge gave me no answer
- to that question either. What was wrong? I scratched my head, as if that
- would help me out; similar to banging your fist on the television box when
- the picture disappears.
- "It's all wrong!" yelled William, as if he had heard my thoughts.
- Carl raised a finger.
- "Ah, you mean..."
- Carl pointed at his head.
- "...this?"
- "What else?" William screamed, even louder than before.
- "This... thing! We cannot talk about anything! We cannot discuss anything!
- Everything there is to know, we know. Everything there is to talk about, we
- cannot discuss! Because we already know the goddamn answer!"
- I began to laugh. Then I said: "Surely, as we all know, knowledge is
- something intrinsically (Larry nodded his head when I used that word) good
- and therefore..."
- "... therefore we should be glad we know everything there is to
- know? Ha ha ha. Very funny. Idiot!"
- William jumped up on the table. With strange eyes and a vicious smile, he
- looked down at us. Now I began to feel really scared.
- "I'm going to terminate my account," he said calmly.
- "Don't be a fool," said John.
- "You can't be serious," said Carl.
- Larry rose from his chair. "Okay," he said, "If you want to do it, well,
- do it then. It's up to you."
- He turned to us. "Okay?"
- I nodded. If William wanted to remove his chip, it was his decision. We
- had no right to stop him. That was a fact. But I was also pretty curious.
- How would someone act who had no access to the infinite wisdom data bank?
- The answer came sooner than I thought.
- I heard the click, and I saw the chip fall to the floor. When I looked
- up, I did not really see my friend William stand there any more. I saw
- something that was more of an ape in a suit, who scratched himself in the
- head and growled inaudible sentences. When William ran away through the door,
- stumbling over his own knuckles, it became obvious to us all that, with the
- infinite wisdom chip attached to our minds, the choice was to have it all -
- or nothing.
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