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he had the best memory

there was nothing he couldn't remember

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from a young age, he won competitions, and by a mid teen, he had been dubbed to have a "photographic memory"

it came he was to be a great researcher, reknown for his ability to connect ideas so distant and disparate in a meaningful way construed to only have been possible due to his preclusive ability to instantly retrieve any idea with such breadth, if not only depth.

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this brought him great fortune and fame, which he did not care about; he only cared about being able to do as he wanted in pursuit of his dreams.

he continued work so fervidly, the world came so dearly to depend on him

his outputs so uniquely benefitting mankind. information power that gave berth to great civilizations, and soon, great wars

came a time, where it was he who was to be the savior of the world

if only he were to make one great sacrifice

and merge with the digital world

and become a conduit of human memory

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and he refused

but he misunderstood

for it was not his choice to make

any longer

for they would force it upon him

he had become too fundamental to their existence

he made it too well known his school

he was too good at his job

and now they would have him do it at all costs

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and so, he became what he always was:

a computer.

epilogue

it's a search engine

it's a mode of remembering all things

all information is wired directly into his mind

all that has ever been recorded, all that will be recorded

stuff directly into his cranium.

and why?

because with a search engine, you have to know what your searching for

but he? he already knows it

you simply have to think about the thing

addendum

the conduit came at pressure points

central flows of energy that circulate through the body's system

these points, existing in concentrated levels, were direct in and out channels for the mind and soul

these points, on the hands and feet, as such, were to be the inflection points in which 256 billions bit per seconds, or 32 gigabytes per seconds, would be pumped directly into his body. directly onto his nerves

+5 -5 volts per bit

over a 10 nano meter transistor

1.280 trillion volts traveling through a 10 nm transistor per second. contacting with his mortal soul through four different singular, minimal, near infinite points.

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and that should be his fate for all of eternity

until they learn to make one of him themselves

provided they did not already do so

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he would be the terminal

the living memory

the photographs of time

// the conduit