It was a usual evening and Vinay had just come home from his office. He switched on the TV and tuned in to the match between Rajasthan Royals and Deccan Chargers. It was year 2020 and the match was the final of IPL-13. The Rajasthan Royals had put up a score of 205. Deccan Chargers were playing good. They needed 43 more runs from 35 balls with 4 wickets still in hand.
Neela brought the pizza that she had prepared and gave Vinay’s dish to him. Vinay was about to eat his pizza when ‘that’ appeared on his TV screen. He froze, he could not eat…
At about same time, Daniel Reeves, President of the United States of America had just risen. Though it was quite late in the day, he was on a vacation, so he had all the rights to be in bed at that hour. In a few days, though, he thought, he would submit budget to the congress. He cleared all thoughts of work from his mind, went to the coffee maker and poured himself a huge cup of coffee. He went to his laptop and started the machine. It was a HP TPU345C, the latest config available at that time. Reeves was a techie.
As his machine started, he logged on to Facebook. He liked to keep in touch with the world, a personal touch to the otherwise mundane job which he hated anyways. And just then that happened. At first he thought it was a virus. But no. This was something different. He stared at the message on his screen in disbelief…
Both Vinay and President Daniel Reeves saw something on their screens (or rather felt in their mind) that made them start. It was not just the two of them, but entire earth stopped.
It was as if somebody had taken control of their minds and was reading out a story or a letter to them. It did not seem to belong to their time but appeared to have come from the future. And it indeed was a message from the future.
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