School Days of the Future

School Days of the Future
A Premonition by Dave

0750 hours. The alarm system installed in Jimmy’s brain is activated and the young boy immediately springs out of his floating cyber bed. Fresh clothes are sprayed onto him after all residual filth is microwaved off of his body. Jimmy teleports to the techno-kitchen with a hankering for sustenance. What will it be today? Nutrient paste? An intravenous omelet? Appetite suppressant? None of the above. Jimmy reaches for some old-fashioned Kellogg’s Laser Flakes. Scrumptious.

0755 hours. Still a full 3 minutes before the space bus arrives to take Jimmy to Moon School. Jimmy turns on his retinal projectors and selects one of the 500 000 video games to be found on the Playstation 44 he had installed in his head on his 14th birthday. Battlefield 2380 sounds good. Jimmy navigates a planet populated by 9 million other players. Oh no! The opposing team has used a magnet to send a 7 million ton meteor hurtling into Jimmy’s team’s headquarters. Game over. No time to fuss, though: the bus is finally here!

0758 hours. While hovering outside, the bus extends a long tube and sucks Jimmy through his living room window. The boy is dropped onto his designated seat and promptly warped to the moon.

0800 hours. Time for school! Jimmy is placed on a long conveyor belt along with billions of other students. He quickly moves toward the Wikipedia Mother Brain. Once he gets there, a mechanical arm thrusts a 3 inch syringe into his ear and pumps raw data into his head.

0804 hours. Jimmy has a pounding headache. He feels disoriented and violated, but he’s home again! Time for bed! Jimmy will need a full 43 hours to recover from today’s violent and invasive knowledge injection. Ah yes… These are the best years of Jimmy’s life.

The End