Grace's+Future+Earth+Story

= //The App // = **I ** wake up on a Monday morning to my alarm clock. Most people hate Mondays, but I don’t. I love my job as a programmer at Apple Computers. The toughest thing about my job is being 21, because I’m the youngest in the office and having people being able to read my mind with this new App going around. Luckily not everyone has this new App, but most of the big corporations do and certainly the government does.

I drive to McDonald’s for breakfast just like every day. McDonald’s are two stories high at a minimum, so they can serve more people at a time. The food is healthy now, not like it was before. The floors are always polished and the decor is always fashionable with matching cushions and tile. I step up to the register and the familiar red light scans my forehead to take my order. I still find it disturbing that I don’t have to say what I want to order anymore.

I get my food and head back to my car. As I drive to work I notice a large group of people with signs that say, “Stop, the mind reading and let us live in peace.” I smile because I know that when I get to work that’s exactly what I’m going to be working on. I know I’ll have to be careful because they can read my mind there. I try really hard to think about everything I need to do before I get to work. Once I get there I won’t be able to think freely anymore, and I’ll have to work fast.

Once at work, I head quickly to my office and say hello to my assistant, Emily. Emily has worked for me for the past year and she has been secretly working with me on the app-blocking project. I am happy that I am not in this alone.

When I sit down at my desk, I see a note from my boss, Mr. Tucker. I am scared that he has figured out what we are doing and that we will get into trouble. Entering his office to see what he wants, I’m afraid. He starts off by telling me how important it is to be loyal to the company and how he can’t have employees doing things against it. Then, when I am really scared and expecting to get into trouble, he whispers to me that he knows what I am doing and that he wants to help. I am so relieved that I want to cry. Not only am I not going to get into trouble, now Emily and I have help.

After work I go home to make dinner. It is now 7:00, and Mr. Tucker and Emily are coming over to discuss what we can do to help stop the mind reading app. They suggested ideas about writing letters to the government, but then I showed them what I had been working on. I showed them my design for a helmet that can block the scanners from being able to read our thoughts. They liked the idea but they suggested that instead of blocking our thoughts, the helmet could send out fake thoughts so that nobody would realize that they were not really reading our thoughts. I agree with them and we decide that this is what we are going to do. It’s a good thing that helmets are the biggest fashion craze since skinny jeans!

We design three helmets to block the mind reading App. Now when our minds are read the only message they get is that our government is really good and it knows what it is doing. It doesn’t take long before thousands of people are walking around with our helmets on. Everyone loves the government and everyone seems happy … especially the criminals Return to Middle School Homepage