Infinite Knowledge:
This story is told in a first person voice, in the end you will find out who the person is.
Kaya (Child of Wisdom) is a daughter of two Princeton scholars, her Dad a well known physics professor and her Mom a religious philosopher. Kaya grows up in a upper middle class neighborhood, and despite her parents expectations to be super-intelligent, she is an average student thru high school. Then, to the disappointment of her parents, she does not get accepted to any Ivy league colleges and almost as embarrassment to her parents, attends a small liberal arts college in the mid-west.
At college, she quickly gets caught up with the wrong crowd, and her grades are suffering in the first semester. Then, during Final Exams something extraordinary happens. Kaya is in the library “studying” for her History final, her mind wandering, and she is just “surfing” the internet for the History sample-test answers, she decides to try her new headphones and listen to some music. She notices that the wire on the headphones is quite warm, almost hot temperature when she feels it. When she puts the earbuds in, a flush of blood goes to her head, she feels dizzy and faint, as if she has been injected with venom. She blacks out for a few seconds and then her awareness returns. Suddenly, she is able to complete the History sample-test questions completely. Amazed by this event, she turns to her Geography sample- exams, plugs in the headphones, and “googles” US Geography. Again, she is filled with warmth, and knows all the answers on the exam.
Her brilliance amazes her friends, every morning she plugs in the headphones and fills up with even more information. She is the hit at parties, they call her “Google Gal”, you ask her a question and she recites the answer, as if she studied the subjects. A college star on Jeopardy, never giving away her secret.
Kaya spends the next few years filling her brain with information, with a seemingly endless amount of storage in her brain for this data. Read a book ? No need, she just googles the reviews and clif notes. Movie perhaps ? No need, just google it and plug in the headphones.
Yet, mysteriously, with all this information, her IQ remains the same. How could this be, she has all this information and is not any more intelligent. Yet, her addiction to information continues, plug-in and get more. Is this infinite ? Could it be possible that she can store more than all the google serves in the world in her head ?
She slowly begins to be paranoid that her head will someday be filled up with data, is it infinite space in there ? Can you every stop learning ? Is it a matter of speed of learning ?
It is in college that she meets a friend, Murray, whose motive is not friendship. Murray is very suspicious of Kaya’s sudden knowledge and is interested in using the power in vicious, world changing ways. Then one day, her headphones are stolen, as Murray has befriended her and taken them and begins his plot to terrorize the world.
Enter the FBI, as they are now on the track of would-be hackers (Murray) stealing information from foreign computers and planning terrorist activities. Learning of this, Kaya assists the FBI in their pursuit of Murray and so begins a battle of information between what Kaya has obtained over the years and Murray’s pursuit for evil.
Kaya starts to deteriorate as she actually became addicted to plugging in and getting gigabytes of information, and her ability to retain information dissolves. Yet her determination
In the ending, the computers mis-interpret the information being provided by Kaya, twisting such that they think Kaya is really at the root of the evil work. Kaya must take it upon herself to stop Murray, which she does. And in the act of stopping Murray, she regains the headphones. She plugs them in, begins a final download of information, and then she rips the cord from the computer, realizing that it has been her “Wisdom” that has allowed her to track down and stop Murray’s evil ways.
But... it is too late.
The government machines have detected her final plug in to the computer, thinking that it is still Murray, and are not aware that it is now Kaya. Kaya, so proud that she has relieved herself of the addiction, and using her wisdom in a way that saved the world from destruction.
In the end, the story teller reveals themself as Murray, who really was working for the FBI all along.
Kaya is killed by the FBI.
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Last update: 18-01-2012 08:39 |
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