world of emptiness

“...and this year, students ranked first in the third grade exam with a score of 100 percent. For the third year in a row since first grade: Wiwat Boy

After the announcement, a scrawny little boy stood out from the ranks amidst the cheers of the students throughout the school. The teachers and teachers all expressed their satisfaction and delight at the boy who had evolved into the most intelligent child ever at the school. this

"Congratulations. Take it. The reward for your perseverance. Well, the students clap their hands to congratulate our friend once again."

The headmaster gave the boy a gift, he took the box in his hand. The applause was loud and uninterrupted. The boy looked at the delighted atmosphere with a neutral expression, narrowed eyes under thick glasses, without any emotion in response.

“Let all of you look at this as an example if you study hard and strive to evolve. One day, they will be successful.”

Words of instruction and congratulations continued to be emitted from the loudspeaker for a long time before the atmosphere in this elementary school returned to normal.

Since three years ago, when Boy Wiwat entered this school, his class had become the focus of other students and teachers because of his apparent genius beyond his years.

And because of that, the homeroom teacher and the boy's classmates couldn't help but notice and admire him from other classrooms as well.

A classroom that is the centerpiece of the homeroom teacher's school for genius children. Roommate of a brilliant person These thoughts caused the people around him to surround the boy, and he became loved by others without even having to do anything.

But having said that, it wasn't because the boy didn't do anything, but he didn't have any interest in doing anything other than studying. He had never once shown any other abilities other than this.

"Hey Watt, see you at the football field this evening."

"yeah"

The boy made a short sound in his throat in response, his eyes not leaving the writing on the blackboard. Even though everyone welcomed and supported the young prodigy fully, it seemed that he himself was missing something in his daily life.

The face was calm and never smiled. never cry Other expressions It is almost completely zero.

“Yesterday we watched the video. The air bike pose is really cool. This evening, I will use this move to score a goal.”

“This is Mr. Pong.”

The sound of shouting from the front of the class made the entire class startled, especially the owner of the name who was chattering away a moment ago. His voice suddenly quieted down, as if someone had pressed a button to stop playing. The cheeky face from just a moment ago immediately bent down onto the table.

“If I hear your voice again You can go stand outside the room.”

“Screeching...screeching.”

“Hey, after school, let's go to the football field. Today I have a great idea to show off.”

It was normal for a small uproar among the students to occur after the school bell rang. The boy walked lazily after his friends. Go out into the open sand field. In front of the school building, the light from the sun was so bright that you had to squint your eyes.

“There are five of you together. The rest are on my side.”

The game began after the sides were divided and the laughter was over. The shouts and cheers of all the members in the stadium were continuous. Some had serious expressions on their faces, while others couldn't stop laughing.

But Wiwat was neither of those things, he was breathing heavily. Running this way and that, only his eyes could follow the football. The boy's athletic talent was zero. Physical abilities are the same. Everyone at school knows. But because of their good-headedness, they want to get close and want to play with them.

The boy stopped running, his chest heaving heavily in and out. He looked up at the sky, the last bits of orange light beginning to fill his mind, drifting out of the field to the library and stacks of books at home.

“Hey, Aiwat, be careful.”

Before he could respond, he felt something hit his head hard. Before all awareness disappeared, the boy became the star of the other students and teachers.

In a clean, white laboratory that was equipped with strange equipment, an old man and a young man in lab coats stood in front of the bed where the unconscious body of the evolved boy lay. A number of other operators stood at their positions. own responsibility

“How are you doing, Doctor?”

The young man asked the boy's condition in a tone that showed the utmost concern. The old man took his eyes off the small figure on the bed and turned around at the sound of the voice. His face didn't show any concern.

“Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with your child. The impact from the soccer ball has caused the memory chip at the back of the head to become slightly disrupted, causing other parts of the brain to function. Ploy only stumbled along.”

The old man explained in a calm voice, looking at the young man speculatively. He sighed for a moment before continuing.

“I understand that you are worried about someone like you who has raised this child for a long time. However, there must be a stronger bond than I thought.”

The young man looked up from his small body and looked at the old man who was communicating with him.

“This child should not be alive in this world since the accident but with our technology, We build your brain and install memory and download knowledge. through pico-technology equipment.”

The old man approached and patted him gently. on the young man's shoulder to show sympathy and confidence at the same time.

“There's nothing to worry about. If our project goes as smoothly as it is, fame and fortune will be within our reach. This success will be something that no one, no matter what success, will be able to compare with it and…”

The old man paused for a moment to stimulate the conversation.

“This project will truly lead mankind to the advancement of knowledge. Future generations will no longer need to learn from scratch, we will just download information into the chip and let the brain use it.”

“And from now on, new knowledge It happens every day that all of the brain's abilities are used to develop new knowledge. Only then will the world enter a new era where everything will proceed at a faster pace than before.”

A smile appeared at the corner of his wrinkled mouth. The old man reached out and caressed the head of the Evolved Boy who was like a precious treasure in his eyes.

“For all mankind. Please keep this in mind. Now, let me go prepare your child's treatment and download new data for him first.”

The old man walked away. The young man looked at the gaunt body of the boy who called him father. This project was originally conceived to save the lives of people with brain damage, but he never imagined that it would go to such a level. this

The boy that everyone called a child prodigy. The child who knows everything

His eyes wandered around his body, his pale face answering. The body is thin and the limbs are small and devoid of muscle tone due to lack of exercise.

The young man closed his eyes and his mind drifted far to the world in the future. A world where every person is a genius. A world where children are born together. with all knowledge of mankind

Can a world that doesn't need to learn or search like this really be able to develop things? Is a world without interaction, without emotion, really that good?

The day the mentally disabled genius was born might have been better if he had let things go as they should. The young man thought about the world of tomorrow. The day that humans will become unfamiliar, the day that humans may not be human anymore.

If that day came, all his sins would surely be engraved in his heart until the last day of his life.

That perverted, ideal world

“Calm down, keep cool, keep cool, there's something we can talk about. The authorities are always ready to negotiate with you to release the hostages and put down your weapons.”

A police officer negotiates through a high-powered loudspeaker at a distance while another man behind a water-powered vehicle points an electron gun at his target.

“It's no use. You look, that guy's face shows no sign of acknowledging that we're here.”

The laser knife was still ready to slash the windpipe of the unfortunate female victim who was being held hostage. Aside from his paranoia towards everything around him, the man who had now become the culprit had no feelings at all.

“Sir, information on the criminals and hostages has arrived.”

The commander took the electronic piece of paper into his hand and used his finger to quickly scroll through the various information on the criminals and hostages inside.

“There is no history of updates to the information in the criminal's brain. It is believed to be a homeless person or someone who fled the city. The hostage's mental health is good. His body is healthy and normal with no history of any previous surgeries after surgery to implant a picochep to connect with his brain in infancy.”

Commanders review the information in front of them to make sure before looking at the target to give orders.

“This is information that is very conducive to our work. Now adjust the electron gun to the lowest level, ready to fire.”

With the command, laser beams from all the guns shot through the air, hitting the villain's forehead in a single point. A split second later, both the villain and the hostage fell on that spot.

“Take the victim immediately to get a new chip at the hospital. As for the culprit, take him to be thoroughly examined for signs or causes of this episode of madness.”

Police and paramedics with life-saving equipment dutifully moved to the bodies of the culprits and hostages. It wasn't long before the unusual incident was over, much to the relief of those present.

And of course, for the man named Kiatphum who had just given the command to proceed with the incident just moments ago, he was also relieved that the matter at hand had ended well.

Dealing with this crime may not be difficult because every piece of information seems to fit perfectly.

From the information of the criminal who has not updated his brain information for a long time, it is considered legal by the international community that he has become a missing person. There are no laws that support him as a human being or living being anymore.

This means that you can deal with this person however you want according to the situation so that no serious problems arise later. This law, although it may seem unreasonably harsh, is necessary and very appropriate for the world of this era.

As for the hostage's own information, it was also said that he had never had any surgery. After the picochip implantation, the body and brain are healthy. This makes the risk of harm from low-intensity electron guns very low.

The result is only to damage the chip and the command system connected to the brain, which for people with perfect physical health is not difficult to fix at all.

Kiatphum dialed a number from his mobile phone to contact his agency, the National Security Office for the New World.

In this era, mobile phones and all wireless signals have become controlled by the National Security Agency, where private companies no longer have concessions.

In one person's lifetime You can only have one telephone number of your own, which is the number on your ID card. There are also strict rules for using a mobile phone.

It is strictly forbidden to take the phone outside the city limits without permission and it is strictly forbidden to use the phone outside the city limits. Violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

In urban areas, every city around the world installs a barrier around the city to block all types of wireless signals. Therefore, when a telephone signal is connected, the mobile phone itself will send a wave to cut off the barrier in the area. that signal out There is a great risk of harm from using a mobile phone outside of a city where the barrier system may not be complete.

“The situation has returned to normal.”

Kiattiphum Krok Sound reports the agency.

“Very good, come back here immediately. The criminal information has arrived.”

He turned off the signal before making his way to the nearest police station, passing through layers and layers of security to descend into the station's deepest basement.

In the white room on the lowest floor, almost the entire room was occupied by a single complexly structured instrument.

Kiatphum took off all of his clothing and walked through several doors to thoroughly clean himself before entering the main part of the machine.

The operator in the control room expertly adjusts various settings. It wasn't long before a white light appeared after Glory took position, his entire body slowly disappeared. It was translucent and disappeared from where it had been, and a few seconds later, Kiattiphum had already appeared at the National Security Office for the New World.

Travel using a teleporter is no longer just the stuff of science fiction. It is neither impossible nor too difficult in today's world. The picochips installed since infancy store data. Complete development and every detail of the body.

With this much information, it is not difficult to break the body into atoms at the source machine, transport the atoms along special channels and reassemble them into the body at the destination machine.

However, there is a rule that people who can use a teleporter must only be over twenty years of age, as their physical growth has begun to stop. This will provide the most accurate physical information.

Another serious prohibition is that this mode of transportation must not be used to travel between cities with imperfect barrier systems. This is because if even a little foreign information slips in along the way, it will cause Problems in assembling the body at the destination

Due to these prohibitions and the high cost for ordinary people to travel this way, hydroelectric cars or nuclear-powered planes are still required.

The door to the control room opened and Kiattiphum walked in and stopped in front of the commander's desk.

“Kitribhumi reports in, sir.”

“I have important information for you. Turn on the FG signal on your pico chip. I will download the data onto your picochip.”

“Yes, sir.”

Today's wireless transmission systems can connect and transmit data between electronic devices and even electronic devices and humans.

The FG signal is a signal that mankind believes is the latest stage in the development of wireless data transmission systems, so it is named FG signal. which is an abbreviation for Final. The last generation or wireless signal.

and the name of the final generation It is also the name that scientists gave to the human race in this era because they also believed that the human race had reached the final stage of its development.

Information received through the senses may be inaccurate during the transmission and analysis of the body, but the information downloaded to the chip can be retrieved directly by the brain.

Analyzing data in this way is called the old term “conceptual analysis”.

It has long been known from countless studies that analyzing information directly from the brain, or visual analysis, is less time consuming and more efficient than perceiving information through the five senses. The transmission time is less and the completeness of the information received by the brain is very different.

The law prohibits the use of FG signals in households because the speed of the signals is so high that it is not possible to fix anything if foreign information gets in the way.

Even government buildings, only those with excellent security systems are allowed to use them.

“A new type of computer virus...”

“That's right. It's a very complex computer virus. It's expected that those who download it will experience the kind of madness you saw there.”

An undisguised apprehension radiated from Honor's fierce eyes. The commander sighed.

“In a moment, I will send all the information to the program developers to create an anti-virus. I called you back for this reason, as a police officer and a skilled programmer in our unit. I ask you to help the programmers even more.”

“Yes, sir, I will try my best.”

“Very good, the more people, the faster. One day sooner, one day fewer victims.”

“Then I would like to go prepare first, sir.”

Kiatphum walked out of the sky building at this time, looking gloomy. The rain clouds seemed to hint that disaster would soon come. He stopped to look at the life-size statue of the man known as the prototype and founder of the National Security Agency for the New World.

“Wiwat”, the name of the person who was the model for the sculpture, is engraved on the base.

Kiatphum sighed heavily as he thought back to the days when he was a child. Almost all textbooks mentioned the genius young man who was the prototype of today's humanity, born more than a hundred years ago.

Wiwat and his father and team have developed the knowledge and abilities of the program and Wiwat himself to be as close to humans at that time as possible.

Wiwat recognizes that people must exercise and must have relationships. You have to be happy when you succeed and you have to be sad when you have something to regret. These commands or information were gradually added and filled in what was lacking in evolution until it was almost perfect.

And that made scientists all over the world come out to accept and congratulate the new era that was about to take place amid opposition from many people.

But after a while, many advanced and modern technologies that emerged from the evolution gradually caused the voices of opposition to become softer and eventually disappeared.

The new Final Generation, or the last era of human development, started from there and many convenient technologies were invented in just a few decades.

Hydroelectric cars, nuclear powered airplanes The most advanced wireless signal Teleporter New laws are also being devised and enforced to keep up with the evolution.

Babies must be fitted with a picochip when they are one year old and will begin downloading their first data when they turn four. And when he reaches fifteen years of age, the boy must report to the authorities to get a citizenship card and receive a mobile phone.

Technology is being used so widely and quickly that it has become part of everyday life in the new world. People are more comfortable than ever before. in history

If you want to collect pictures from your travels or send them to friends. If you see it, just print it out by connecting the picochip to the FG network.

But uncontrolled technology eventually causes a big problem to arise. Even though humans can create a lot of knowledge and abilities, the abstract things called minds and feelings cannot be created together.

Eventually, a computer virus of unknown origin began to spread and infect people's picochips like an epidemic, causing every city in the world to cover areas with protective barriers to cut off wireless signals. All control measures and laws are gone. Regarding wireless networks, they have been enacted and enforced ever since.

In the beginning, computer viruses only caused minor glitches on chips, but now they have evolved to drive people crazy.

Kiatphum thinks of the difficulties in the future. The era of terrorism with weapons of war may be gone but the era of terrorism with computer viruses will soon replace it.

Final Generation Perhaps it truly is the last era of mankind.

An old man looks at the world below from the fifth floor balcony of a skyscraper condominium. Still struggling The noise was still noisy, no different from the old days. But everything is not the same as before. In the midst of the bustle, we find only loneliness. In the midst of the bustle, there is only silence.

It's not like it used to be and probably never will be again.

Decades ago, when he was a burly young man, the old man was a top-notch police officer. of the National New World Security Agency That time was a time of leaps and bounds in technology, and as such, management that was unable to keep up with the technology that was mushrooming would result in leaps and bounds of problems as well.

The old man couldn't remember a day when he didn't have to point an electron laser at someone who wasn't legally recognized as a human being. He couldn't remember a night when he didn't have to curl up in front of a computer screen. in order to invent antivirus to fight new viruses that appear every day.

There had never been a day when he had been able to inspect the city comfortably, and there had never been a night when he had slept soundly. But that was still much better than now.

At that time, a new type of computer virus sent from an unknown source had an increasingly severe impact on the recipient. It is thought that viruses that attack the processing system and connection of the picochip with the brain are the most dangerous.

But that's a wrong idea.

More dangerous viruses are still being released floating around everywhere. The FG signal reaches and instead of destroying the processor like previous viruses, Instead, it allowed the system to continue operating while slowly creating false memories to make those who received them think of themselves as they did.

Crime has increased exponentially and crazy people are seen every day.

When everything seems to be spiraling out of control, the New World government has an idea to phase out all networked electronic devices to stop the problem.

It's just that people who have been addicted to technology for a long time are no different from people who are addicted to the effects of drugs. Removing the picochip from the body is like burning the pile of knowledge that was acquired since birth.

All newborn children must return to the ancient curriculum, having to sit and study from the time they learned to write their first letters, just like they did more than a hundred years ago.

Removing the FG signal will cause further delays in communication between government agencies of the New World.

And evaluating the situation from all five senses instead of sending information directly to the brain with FG signals will be slower and more likely to cause errors.

Humans have left behind so many things amidst the technology of that era and just thinking about them. Just thinking about the lag Difficulty lacking these things, a few dissenters soon turned into riots until the New World government finally gave up on the idea of ​​ending technology. That's it.

The world continues to spin along with a twisted way of life. Many people began to think about the end of the creature called human beings. Little by little, hopelessness creeps in. Various technologies Slowing down until it almost stopped dead in its tracks.

But eventually one of hundreds of thousands of research teams led by him made a monumental discovery.

Self-developed antivirus

As the light at the end of the tunnel soon after the intelligent anti-virus was released following the FG signal, the entire world was able to remove the barrier. Just let the smart antivirus do its job and soon the computer virus will be gone.

The world returned to normal again and the people around the world cheered. Because computer viruses were a huge problem in the past, hindering development in various fields, the New World government declared victory and called the next era truly the Final Generation.

Teleporter FG signal and other technologies related to the complete high-speed network system were released freely again. Network marketing has returned to popularity and has continued to be developed.

And the first network robot was born. Initially, it was programmed to do simple tasks on behalf of the user, such as paying the market or buying things. It would check various matters. through the network

And later it was developed to allow the user to control it over the network or even to program it to do more complex actions on behalf of the user by the user himself.

With that convenience, it wasn't long before network robots became widely popular. And just like that, people started leaving their homes less. Starting to meet each other less Start talking less

And as if to compensate for all that, a small digital world was created Many people who rarely left their homes began to use the services of that small world from small towns. In the digital world, it has become a country. From an empty city Gradually it was decorated until it became everything. And finally the digital world becomes the whole world.

Traveling in the digital world is easy, from Earth to the solar system. and eventually became the universe Everyone can travel anywhere in the digital universe in just a fraction of a second.

Travel, with time and cost constraints eliminated in the world, the less people left their homes. Each person lives in a simulated universe where the time spent there increases and becomes longer. A world where one can do anything.

Even people in the same family began to talk with their own voices less and less, and people saw each other's real faces less. Until finally, the whole world went silent and all development began to stop again.

An old man sat motionless on the fifth floor balcony of a sky-high condominium, his eyes watching what was going on below. They are all human-made mechanisms.

Although it moves, it is not alive. There is no such thing as spontaneity. It was as if the whole world was just him sitting on this balcony. That was the loneliness the old man felt.

noise engine sound or even speech It was all artificial sound. There was no meaning from the sound that was emitted. There isn't even any vitality. And that was silence in the old man's sense.

“Crack...crack.”

The door to the room opened and a robot servant approached the old man carrying a tray. An out of tune sound comes from the speaker at the mouth part.

"It's time to get your medicine, sir."

“Put it on the table and go take care of other work.”

The old man said as he waved his hand without looking at the robot, taking orders and moving away. This was the first time that day that the old man had spoken, but what he was talking to was a lifeless machine.

He looked back at the medicine tray before moving his gaze to the wall of the room, countless medals and certificates hanging on it. Every leaf is engraved with a name. “Kiathumbhumi” who is the owner of those awards of honor His name has not been called by anyone in a long time.

When he was young, he thought that the human era would end with a computer virus, but he only realized now that he was wrong. Computer viruses can be eliminated with the right antivirus just as ancient humans were able to invent new medicines to combat evolving strains of germs.

At that time, computer viruses acted as a means of keeping technology in check. Not too advanced to the point of being out of control, not too comfortable to the point of neglecting everything.

A self-developed antivirus should not have been created. The old man sighed. His eyes looked blank. I feel sorry for myself every time I think about it. He shouldn't have started and led the project until it was successful.

He should have thought of this a long time ago, probably already able to predict future events.

Even though more than a hundred years ago, the era when every human was born with the word genius, what is called the mind has never been developed. Humans are still attached to themselves, we are all still obsessed with technology. Slave to comfort and ready to abandon every truth in front of you.

From now on the world will become quieter and emptier. Until finally the whole world will be empty. There is nothing left and the last world of mankind will surely come soon.

We are afraid of many things, but in the end it is the human mind that pushes everything towards that end.