The director on his PC screen viewed the number of people, who watch the show, increasing in geometric progression every second. MeTeo Company hasnt seen such a rating for the whole history of television: three and a half billion users simultaneously watched every movement of the only one person. And it was Alexey Kim.
He enjoyed the moment, feeling the weight of his glory with every inch of his skin.
Lana, you know perfectly well that your phone is the latest development. The most purchased model. And believe me, this, pointing to the phone is a history. But this, reached for his pocket will be a new century of the mankind.
On the table appeared a black, polished hemisphere, round, having the size of a coin.
What is it?! Lana falsettoed unexpectedly, even for herself.
Alexei touched the sphere with his finger. And for all who saw this, it seemed like the sphere was made of water. Then he pulled the sphere to the right. And then it took the shape of an absolutely transparent puddle.
This is the first stage of the setup, the moment when you get acquainted with your personal encoder AOUA FONNI looks this way (smiles).
On Lanas face, a deep disappointment could be seen with the naked eye.
And what happens next? she has already decided that she will be the first to interview a person whose technological innovation will appear a failure of the century.
And then the user chooses a form convenient for him.
With the elusive and so habitual movement Alexey pointed his finger at the puddle, and it took the shape of a familiar phone. AOUA FONNI lit up, and in front of TV presenter, Lana, appeared her own face, only of earlier years. It was a focused projection or nanoimage. And no matter from what side you looked at this face, it seemed that it was looking at you.
You must forgive me; I have already chosen my avatar for the phone. And its YOU!
Hello! Alexey, you have a meeting in one hour and forty-five minutes. Your deputy called; there are several messages from the members of the group. Would you like to listen? I am also glad to tell that at the moment the viewing of this TV show on the Internet reached a record spectators number!
No, you do not need to play the records. It will be better if you show what you can do.
Yes, I will conduct a training course for the new user of AOUA FONNI; you need to say the codeword for opening information into general access.
What does it mean? Lana considered herself a professional in her business, she interviewed the heads of the states, but this upstart just left her open-mouthed, watching her image with a full copy of facial expressions and voice saying something.
This is the avatar of my phone. It completely replaces the functions of any communicative devices. The owner of such a device can choose any avatar of a person, an animal, a thing or a fictitious character, clear only to him. It does not matter.
All the time, while he was talking, the avatar of Lana blinked, smiled and waited for the code word.
The pale face of the TV presenter was filled with a sincere surprise, and she tried to examine the avatar with her large unbelieving eyes and even to touch it with her finger.
Alexey was at the peak of his nirvana. He is a winner, and this moment is only the beginning of a great victorious march, and nobody will hinder him. Nobody will be able to.
After selecting the avatar, the phone is already starting to function at the level, he pointed at Lanas phone, of yours, but only ten percent of what my AOUA FONNI has to offer. A full review of the training lectures is required. This is a very entertaining moment, since each time the program is already being adjusted to its owner.
But how can this phone adjust to the owner? And where the SIM card and phone number are inserted into it? Lana, panting, began to shoot questions, afraid to miss something important.
And now the most interesting thing: it does not have a phone number or a SIM card in your understanding. If you allow (he began to smile again), I will go back a little to the history of technology. The inventor Don Tallips and his colleague futurist Coutrenin Robert were right about that Gordon Moores law was wrong. And we, indeed, with the help of nanotechnology maximized not only the transfer of data but also the growth of transistors. Ahem. Our scientists from Art. soul Holding group, led by your faithful servant, made a breakthrough: we introduced nanorobots into ordinary drinking water. Thus, with the help of some of our secret technologies, we obtained the original crystallized substance.
There was complete silence in the audience. Lana had no questions. She simply admired and at the same time was enraged about this arrogant genius.
And he kept talking:
Water, indeed, is the carrier of information. But in order for me not to go into the jungle of scientific terms that are incomprehensible to everyone, I will describe the process. So, this technology allowed us to realize the following opportunities in mobile technologies. This phone really does not need to be charged, it does not have a battery, because it takes energy for work from completely different sources. It cannot be hacked or stolen. Since the owner with his first touch gives information about his DNA and RNA, this is the password for the entire information.
Forgive me for interrupting, Alexey, tell me, do you want to say that this phone does not need to be charged? How is this possible?
Yes, it is not necessary at all, it is charged from the sun, from the light of lamps, from the heat of your hand, from any sources of energy. And there are no restrictions in its use. To fix your broken AOUA FONNI, you need to put it in a bowl and pour water from a tap or bottle (laughs), and it will repair itself. This avatar replaces a lot of the most complicated applications: smart home, weather, Internet search engines, currency trading, moreover, at one touch it can indicate sugar in the blood, pressure and even milk tide for nursing mothers. Well, of course, all the settings are individual and absolutely secret, because there is no database in which you put secrets, all this is stored on this device. Access to which you define individually to each user, in addition to yourself.
The memory of one million fifty thousand terabytes allows you to play with the settings (smiles).
To say that Im shocked is to say nothing.
He takes the phone in his hands, the avatar disappears immediately.
This is both a storage medium and a source of energy; we came to the conclusion that the technology of chipping is outdated. There is no chip with information in it, it is a chip itself, there is no battery, because all energy is in all its constituent parts.
It seemed for the viewers for a while that this TV-show is simply a practical joke.
Perhaps, I will give a command about the beginning of publishing the information in the media and the beginning of PR-action and sales of this phone from tomorrow. So, the code word the avatar came to, sparkled and smiled with a wide sincere smile, IIN number one, youre free!
At that moment, hundreds of thousands press releases, video tutorials and annotations to the phone were sent all over the world, to all postal addresses.
Alexey lightly pressed the screen and the avatar disappeared again. On the table were two transparent telephones, one seemed to be a childs toy, the second was more massive and already obsolete. He touched the phone again, and it gathered itself and again became a black hemisphere.
How much will this phone cost?
Forty-five dollars. Since our costs for this phone do not require expensive plastic, metal and other alloys.
The applause blew up the studio. Nobody expected such a low cost of a new toy.
I prepared a surprise for you, Lana, and Ill give you such a phone. Only, please, do not make my picture an avatar of your phone, Im not as beautiful as you! Your AOUA FONNI encoder is already waiting in your office.
Cries of favor and applause reappeared in the audience.
Oh! I am very grateful to you! It will be very interesting.
Now my director tells me that we are still havent talked on the main topic a game with full immersion and technology AOUA Robe. Would you tell us? (Laughs.)
The audience burst out again with impatient applause.
The game is called Ouiet running, or, as I call it, run around quietly, hehe. With full immersion, thanks to the AOUA Robe costume, our players are put into the future world with fantastic opportunities, adventures, stories, where the main goal of each player will be to find The Eye of God and The Hand of God. Anyone who finds them, regardless of the level, the chosen class, and is the first to bring them to the right place, will be the first winner and will receive one million dollars and five percent of our company shares.
The game will start three months later. The first twenty lucky winners, who are lucky in the lottery, will get a free AOUA Robe and ten thousand dollars, a lot of opportunities in the development of the character, being the first in the passage of all possible assignments.
Alexey, but isnt this kind of games already developed in our world? This is not a novelty. What is different about your game?
The difference is that being completely in AOUA Robe, your body repeats all your actions in the game. If you learn to swim in the game, then in life you can then become a first-class swimmer. Your muscles are not only subject to atrophy, but, on the contrary, they acquire in the course of time maximum youth and elasticity.
So, you are going to say: if I do abs exercise and practice blows in the game, then in real life I will have an ideal figure?
Yes.
How does this happen?
VLADIVOSTOK, AUGUST 15, 2057
Hurry up! Bunch of dead cockroaches! After forty minutes, the ship must already sail! If you wont be in time, Ill shove your heads in your a..! Frozen herrings!
In the port there was always windy, the difference was only in the level of trauma danger. In winter, it was worst of all: the frosts at night sometimes fell to minus thirty. Then we had to fight not only with the weight of the cargo but also with the risk to freeze ourselves the quail.
The principle is simple: came, completed work, got money, left. There are changing rooms, a dining room and a shower on the territory.
Listen, taciturn, Vasilich is yelling at you! Come on, go ahead, man! said Cyril.
It was a mockery, because only Serega dragged boxes, all the other men had another smoke break.
Haha! Yes, move, because we are tired! Ah-ha! local workers neighed.
Sergey did not care. He was used to ridicules of his colleagues.
He did not consider as necessary to answer them and go down to their level. He simply kept silent. These jokes were nothing in comparison with what happened three years ago.
Only Uncle Vasily remembers how, after the shift, he found a young boy, all beaten up, in blood.
Then, having earned five grand for a shift, Serega was happy, but not for long: the next guest workers quickly emptied his pockets, not forgetting to threaten that they would cut him if he were to complain.
Lord, what is going on! Boy, are you alive?
Vasily tried to stifle a bunch of dirty rags.
Mmm, it hurts and the boys head jerked back.
He seems to be alive. But if he dies, then there will be a lot of problems, the only thing we need is to deal with cops, f.. thought Vasily Dmitrievich.
Well, hes alive! Lets go, to my place, youll drink, youll wash yourself, rotten barracudas.
Uncle Vasya then dragged a lean boy to himself, made him drink vodka, made him wash up and put him to sleep. For the first time after drinking alcohol, Serega quickly passed out.
All this was he remembered again. Sighing heavily, he picked up the bale and headed for the car.
Sergey, are you dreaming? Come on, come on, tempo-tempo! Cyril did not stop.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! everyone croaked again. But when they saw Vasilich coming out again from the booth, they tossed cigarette butts and lined up in a row to carry the load. This old man could leave them without payment.
Sergey! Come on over here! And again disappeared in the belly of the blue-rusty whale.
Im coming! quickly dragging the next bale to the truck, Sergey wiped his hands with a rag and went into the almost blue trailer.
For three years, almost every night, he carried a variety of cargoes, there was no one who could withstand such loads for so long.
But he did not have much choice. His dirty, patched overall he figured as a uniform of superhero. This way it was easier to carry all the shit that was going on in the port.
The door of the trailer creaked and he went inside. Yes, nothing has changed here in three years. The same perfect order, everything in its place: the table near the window and the bench on the side, two chairs and an electric kettle, boiling water.
I wonder if he ever turns it off? thought Serega.
Come in, sit down, I have to talk to you.
There was one thing Sergei realized: youd better not play jokes on Uncle Vasya,
and if he has to talk to you, it is always on the matter.
Listen, you should not appear in the port in the next three months, Vasily Dmitrievich raised his tanned wrinkled hand and stopped Serega. Stop, stop, Im aware of your position.
The jumped guy slowly sat back on the stool.
But you understand that we will have checks here. The Japanese smuggle contraband, the big dough is paid on top, and we suffer. Do you want some tea? According to a special recipe!
No, no, I will not have tea. Heck! What shall I do? he did not expect such a bummer, and especially not now. Heck! Heck!
Sergey inclined his head, already thinking about what kind of work he could find to combine with the university.
Do not swear in my presence. I have decided to give you an advance for these three months of idle time, but keep in mind, then you will work it all off. Here, there are three hundred and twenty thousand that is less than what you earn, but at least something. Your grandfather, probably, needs to change the wheelchair. Besides, you will have a rest, it is summer after all, and you here all days long.
Thats what was stunning for Sergey: no one gave him money thats right, in advance, or you can say, just like that!
Its now past five, so take the money and get out, then the GRU, Alpha-shmalfa and other fun-loving guys, checking guest workers, and just at six am sharp, will begin, f.
Vasily Dmitrievich, thank you! They shook hands firmly. Ill call you in about three months!
Yes, yes, call. If the brains of the old walrus will not be completely withered.
Vasily looked at the back of a young, healthy guy and was surprised: in three years almost everyday loads made a bulldog of a puppy. Only his eyes remained puppy like. Having spat, the chief went about his business. He began to prepare tea according to a special recipe of navy seals.