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From a diary of someone who was born in the early 2050s

Darius
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)
2 min readDec 7, 2020

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I can’t believe that people lived without being connected to the Web.

They used to send letters, postcards. They even made phone calls. Primitives!

The Web is everything, we talk, love, eat and shit on the Web. How people managed to exist without it, how they found their way without Google maps, how they order their food? They have to go to a store to buy stuff?!?

My grandmum told me that her friends would turn up unannounced to her door! Madness!

Back in the day, they would gather together-not virtually via Zoom, but physically meet up in someone’s house to celebrate birthdays or Christmas. I am scared only thinking about it. How unhygienic is that! Primitives!

They even had funerals to attend! How disgusting is that!

I am so happy that I was engineered. I am a proud tube baby. My mum didn’t have to carry me for 9 months, and my other mum didn’t have to work in two jobs and take care of the family.

They just went on the Web, designed my features, gender, my future capabilities (I am an artist) and voila- I am a tube baby!

My other mum not with us anymore ,she moved to Switzerland , lives in a town called-Euthanasia. I have not spoken to her for years now, I was told she doesn’t want to be bothered.

I speak to my first mum all the time, we Zoom each other. She is a happy lady, her pills keep her mood up at all times.

Sometimes she talks funny- the pills keep her awake for days. She gets tired without sleep, and when she gets tired she tells me about the days- Old School days.

I have to go now, my Christmas Party is just about to start.

HAPPY ZOOM CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!

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