Digital Plan

What I'm going to say in this record, I heard personally. Typing it through any device could lead me to the same possible end that had those involved in this case. I'm using an old pencil, which broke twice before I even started to write.

I can barely apply a readable trait because I've never written this way. I just try to replicate the letters I learned from the computer. My hand is shaking because I'm in a hurry to write and also very nervous. I know I'll forget this information only after I sleep, but I also recognize how confused I get using my damaged memory intensely.

Mr. Nilo just came through the door. He arrived flushed and white-lipped, unlike his usual less accelerated pace of those who grew up before the Digital Plan.

Nilo is 57 years old and lives under my apartment with his son Hyago, who is 18 years old. Before retiring, he worked as an engineer all his life building telecommunication towers. When the Digital Plan happened, he was a kid. His generation was the last able to graduate — and to study. At that time there were few major choices and all were in the ​​technology area.

During my childhood, the elders had a negative memory of the school. After all, we now have a decade and a half spared from a dull study routine.

For me it always seemed like a breakthrough, until the conversation I had with Nilo just now.

Any job today is intuitive. Just follow the steps. A dentist, for example, inserts the patient's name into the system and asks the questions that arise on the screen. The patient is scanned after being positioned on the markings and then the robotic arms operate to perfection.

When machines cease to function, ABSCPSCAM — the state-owned company that controls all systems is called by the system itself.

The security of these equipment is defended daily by advertisements. Even the transportation facilities have the incredible mark of zero fatal accidents since the Digital Plan was implemented.

The paper was no longer produced, along with anything else that could keep information. At that time, these materials were no longer widely used. The Digital Plan was protected by a majority of the population who understood the advantages of technology and knew that resources to produce paper, pencils, pens and paints were not infinite.

The propaganda of the time was massive. Several celebrities starred advertisements with their hair flying through the wind next to beautiful arboreal fields holding an expression of excitement. At the caption: NO PAPER, FRESH AIR.

The second stage of the project was the mobilization of the government so that all files and photographs were digitized and stored in the cloud, so that the physical documents were recycled. Since many people wanted to keep family photos, possession of such objects became a crime, as it is today.

The side of my hand is already all black with the graphite I have never used. It doesn't stop me from rubbing my face as I take a deep breath. Mr. Nilo have asked me to pay attention to the following part, and request you the same.

Theses days, to know where you've been on vacation two years ago, simply access that time period on your timeline. To remember the last conversation with your girlfriend, open your chat. To remember your relationship with the peers you'll meet at work that day, just check your relationship outline as you wake up, as we all learn to do on a daily basis.

I've even rolled through a lot of news that sells the benefits of not having to retain information. They say it relieves our brain from the overload of informations we get everyday.

There isn't one person who disagrees: it is comforting not needing to remember everything.

"Well," Mr. Nilo cleared his throat and frowned, making me pay attention to his drooping eyelids. "How can you be sure that it was you who created all the events on your calendar?"