The Vision
Ken McLeod was rocking with the chair daydreaming. Algebra was boring for him, too easy.
“Ken! Don’t rock with the chair!” Said Miss Lansteiner.
Ken made himself to sit properly and looked at the black board. Too simple for him.
Miss Lansteiner was a hard teacher and he didn’t like her.
Ken glanced over the other students who were following the algebra problems on the black board. He wanted something real to think about.
Even though Ken only was 17 he was one of the most extraordinary bright people in the village of Brine.
After some boring lessons was the school was heading for the end of the day and at 15 PM Miss Lansteiner was speaking about the homework to do for the next day.
“Today we have something special. You are all going to speculate about the future until tomorrow. Tomorrow we will all write down the ideas and turn it in to me.” said Miss Lansteiner.
Ken’s interest level jumped up. This was something extraordinary, something in his taste. This he will do with joy.
Ken was already starting the speculations on the way home with his bike. Despite the fast speed in which he was biking his thoughts was way gone.
When arriving home he took all the relevant books and put them on his table in his room. He locked the door, he has to work in peace and no little sister will disturb him this time.
How do you predict the future?
The only logical way for Ken was to look at history, determining the trends and thus predicting the future. But this was not enough specified.
After some hard work tearing the books for some hours he was not satisfied. But he wanted to find out.
The day was heading for night and the exhausted Ken went to his bed. That night Ken McLeod saw the wildest things he could ever imagine. He wouldn’t possible know how it would change his and so many others life.
The next day Ken could only think on one thing. He has to write and this fast. After a fast breakfast and a fast biking Ken was in the school as he usually was.
He was sitting at his desk in the corner which he so many other times had been reading and speculating from and was looking on Miss Lansteiner who made the roll call.
“Did everybody think about the future?” Asked Miss Lansteiner.
The students replied with a boring tone: “Yes…”
“Now we are going to write the ideas, do everybody has a paper and a pen?” asked Miss Lansteiner.