Except - Digital Mind - Author Roland Bastien.
Xiaolei Quan and Feng Yantai wriggle out; as they know, they have a plus, a mega-brain.
“Well says Xiaolei, I am just like you Feng - far away from the nightmare. I still do not know you; even we are like a twin.”
“I am not sure if all that is the truth replies Feng with a strong Chinese accent. I cannot realize even where I am now, where is the real exit for me.”
“I know that, and I will help you to understand all. I born, and I leave here in L.A all my life. I was a student in medicine who switched to high technology studies. I am a computer analysis.”
“What happens, Miss Quan? Do you think we are really like a twin?”
“A Muslim Sufi leader has been kidnapped in L.A. by his group. He is a charismatic political leader from Canada at the time he has been honored by L.A. elite and Hollywood activist actors. Some people think that was a way to save his life. This man has a divine power. He never feels fear. He does have a perfect logic that allows him to sort most of the phenomena human faces. Then, some Muslim militants had been killed in Quebec. He moved here to give a lecture, protected by big names: intellectuals, and human right. They honored him with a big party. The night they kidnapped him, a new ecologic catastrophe transformed the city into a ghost City. Monstrous viruses affected all computer terminals. Wall Street in New York cannot retrieves data. You and I are like that leader. They cannot deal with our brains either in their brain relate network. We created more problems than they already have and will not resolve them if we stay linked to the system.”
“So, can I live without corrupted data into my brain, Xiaolei?”
“Yes, sir. We have to find another terminal in Canada to convert and transfer the data to another backup system, which will free us.”
“What about our biosystem? I do not believe what they said. It is impossible. Our DNA cannot be despite the fact we still use our memories. I am Feng and feel like Feng.”
“Do not worry Feng, she says with a smile on her face. Most of us cannot have access to our DNA memory when we deal with realities.”
“Are you sure?”
You are an 80's man from Main China, Is n’ it? The post-digital age just starts. So many things will happen.”
“I must be blind. How can we set our present into what you call “post numeric society”? I cultivate Falun Gong. My De is my primary asset. What do you cultivate? Feng asks.”
Buddhism, she replies.
“Are you sure to be a Buddhist, not a Taoist? Most Chineses are confused about this. I am Taoist and cultivate Falun Dafa, the way I crossed that hell, without being burned.”
One may think about “the Quantum physic and the Lotus “essay. Xiaolei avoids taking that highway and back to Feng at its average level. She asks:
“Do you have Family in China?”
“Certainly. My father, Jiangui Feng was in 1949. He was a prominent member of the Communist party. In the middle of the 70's to 1985, he was the premier judge of Chengdu Tribunal, in the North, a city of eight million people. A few years later, they condemned him to death when the party found him guilty of conspiracy with Tibetan people and being a Buddhist. He runs away from Chengdu to Kunming by train and by bus from Kunming to the Sino-Birman border where Yi people killed him before he gets to the West. My mother is from Shenyang, but her ancestors traveled from Mongolia to China. She lives now in Beijing. My Aunt Mei, on my mom side, lives in Pyongyang near to Seoul. After my father death, we moved to live with her. She had several children, and I am the only one in my family. We lived there at least six years before we moved back to China. I speak Korean as well.
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