DCS's Blog
June 21, 2020
the-T-axis
Excerpts from chapter IV
In came nurse Rina to deliver orientation lessons to me. Her cheer was infectious and good for the patients. She had to prepare me for the world outside. Unlike regular patients, she had to spend more time with me. She had to teach me in a couple of sessions, how the world had changed in a hundred years.
I was not like her other patients. I had a 100 year blank sector without any memories in my hard drive.
‘People live until 130 years now and I am already 110’, Rina said.
So Rina was 110 years old. She looked 25 years old, thanks to today’s medical science. She had been a teacher, a lawyer and held odd jobs. She had been married 3 times.
She explained, ‘You had a normal childhood for under two decades and a long youth for a hundred long years. Since your youth extends for well over a hundred years, you change careers, get married, have children, divorce, go to college again, do all that many times over.
Medical science had ensured your body parts functioned well until you died. It also ensured you looked quite young until you did that. The world now has few small children and everyone else looks in the twenties and thirties’.
