Grid 41141

Grid 41141

Blogging finally after ages, again! Short story this time. :P

This time I am in a script writing kind of mood. Writing quality takes a back seat. Grip, growth and content of the story is the stress. J

The production imagination should be as advanced in technology as imaginable even for the short story that this is.

Characters:

Young: An adult European white male. He is the prodigious adopted son of Dhyaan (Indian Dad) and Anna (French Mom). They both are global aggregators of sequential digital knowledge and objects required for children. They are teachers in their times. Young’s original parents were legendary Italian couple drivers in Mach Three Race (exactly what the name suggests) who died in an accident.

Lee Jr.: A young Chinese girl of about 13 who is the daughter of Lee Sr. who was a core contributor to the conceptualization and construction of The Grid. (Explained later) Her mother died of cancer. She took to Intergrid games (later) very early in life and is the lead fighter from her Grid.

Victor: An adult black who is the son of Santi and Emma. They run their business of advanced circuitry and machine design and production in their background. (Explained later) He was the winner of last four Intergrid Matches. 

Scene One

/ Moonlit night at a junction of six roads lined by beautiful buildings with trippy and nice internal lighting is visible. Junction is a crisscrossing of six flyovers over an artificial lake. Advancements in civilization are evident. /

/ Three robots (think transformers) run in towards the lake and fight with sophisticated maneuvers. One emerges the winner and bows in Japanese style in front of the rubble of the two other robots. /

/ Three people run in towards the spot carrying high tech game controllers removing head gears with internal display, sound systems and mike.  Young is smiling broadly while Lee Jr. and Victor is sportingly dejected. /

Young waves to no one in particular.

Scene Two

/ A mash up of 20 mini scenes of groups of people (families, friend gatherings, work places) watching cheerily the above match on next generation display systems – holographic, 3 D, giant plasma screens etc. Crowd at most places is a mix of different races./

Scene three

/ We see a private small dome where parents of the three players are watching the match. /

/ Lee Sr. gives Anna a congratulatory hug and shakes hand firmly with Dhyaan. /

Lee Sr.: Well. That was the most exciting match we have seen since the dawn of Intergrid Matches. Badhaaiyaan. (Machine sound produced by a gadget worn by Lee Sr., Hindi word for congratulations.)

< Interruption one: This is a time when language has lost sense. Advancement in real time speech recognition and generation, and proliferation of Internet has made almost any information and knowledge accessible in real time making communication way easier and efficient. >

Santi: My boy Vicky there put in a real good fight. What say, Anna?

Emma: Come on now Santi, we need to work on those machines that we are giving to Vicky. We have to make better robots to help Vicky fight Young. We all know he was the best fighter out there tonight.

< Interruption two: Time is way into future. Production of gadgets has been significantly simplified through way advanced material research and immaculate versions of 3D printing. Individual production of gadgets is suggested mostly except in case of highly advanced machinery. Source of energy is universally consolidated. Renewable, free, clean energy is accessible to all through globally installed advanced harness systems. >

Anna: Of course, we all know Victor is the best controller of the advanced robots out there. He was born and raised amongst machines and it’s not hard to imagine his future in Intergrid Matches.

< Interruption three: The land on earth is divided into 99,999 equal sized grids. Each has roughly same population. Ethnic diversity in each is almost pretty even. Each grid competes amongst each other in various games like the advanced robotic Intergrid Matches and Mach Three Race etc. >

Dhyaan: I am happy for Vicky, Lee and Young. Youngie is a blessed man. We are in an age where we have eliminated physical and linguistic boundaries. We no more have countries but grids. There is no more rich or poor, only people using their faculties to their chosen level of exertion, sole driver being the joy of accomplishment and glory. We have eliminated dependency on destructive energy sources. Heck, we have ensured energy for all. We have collectively given up on the need for religion and have evolved into a species that can survive happily with no fear of the unknown. We have eliminated wars. We have colonized other planets organically. Collective intelligence has driven up the usage of brains power. After much hard lessons I am happy that we, as a race, are on the right path in evolution. Young was always a bright child. He participated in the Intergrid Matches for our grid, Grid 41141, for the first time. He is a natural at anything he does. He is the first known human to have used over 50% of his brain. I honestly can’t imagine what 100 % takes us to.

/Young waves at them all on the screen. What his adopted dad just said was faintly audible on one of the channels on his headgear. No change of emotions leave him. Just a flat display of pure joy of accomplishment in the form of a pleasant smile and a twinkle in the eyes set on future./

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