Kids in the school bus were returning home. A group of three kids were amusing themselves at what the teacher had told them that day in class.
One of the boys named Anand said, 'Hah! Can you believe people those days thought that the universe had no boundaries, stars were infinite and if they were to reach the nearest one it would take years if they travelled at the speed of light. And that's not all they thought light was the fastest. Ha ha ha.'
Another boy added, 'My Mom once said that people used to consider 80 km/h speed 'reckless' and used to crash into each other at these speeds.'
Anand: 'Of course they had tiny roads back then, could move only sideways to avoid another vehicle and relied too much on their reflexes.'
A quiet boy named Mohan, who was dreamily gazing at the stars zooming by from his window said, 'Atleast they enjoyed a quiet, worry free life. Kids our age were not given assignments to build a working model of a frog, constructed cell by cell.'
Anand said in his usual air of a genius, 'Quit complaining, you know that you can just print out the frog from wikipedia, besides cellular paper are cheap now a days.'
Mohan retorted saying, 'Oh come on, then what is the point in doing the homework if you aren't going to do it on your own?'
Anand: 'We can make human bodies in a matter of minutes. What is the use making things on our own? This whole idea of education is cynical.'
Their bus landed at their neighbourhood planet and they got of the bus. They walked a little distance where they had parked their self driven pods. On their way as they reached their pods, they exchanged sources to complete their homework and initiated print jobs. As he sat in his pod Anand jumped his pod over Mohan's and disappeared from the view before the blink of an eye. Mohan's frog would be printed and ready at his desk when he reaches home... unless the frog decided no to stay.
One of the boys named Anand said, 'Hah! Can you believe people those days thought that the universe had no boundaries, stars were infinite and if they were to reach the nearest one it would take years if they travelled at the speed of light. And that's not all they thought light was the fastest. Ha ha ha.'
Another boy added, 'My Mom once said that people used to consider 80 km/h speed 'reckless' and used to crash into each other at these speeds.'
Anand: 'Of course they had tiny roads back then, could move only sideways to avoid another vehicle and relied too much on their reflexes.'
A quiet boy named Mohan, who was dreamily gazing at the stars zooming by from his window said, 'Atleast they enjoyed a quiet, worry free life. Kids our age were not given assignments to build a working model of a frog, constructed cell by cell.'
Anand said in his usual air of a genius, 'Quit complaining, you know that you can just print out the frog from wikipedia, besides cellular paper are cheap now a days.'
Mohan retorted saying, 'Oh come on, then what is the point in doing the homework if you aren't going to do it on your own?'
Anand: 'We can make human bodies in a matter of minutes. What is the use making things on our own? This whole idea of education is cynical.'
Their bus landed at their neighbourhood planet and they got of the bus. They walked a little distance where they had parked their self driven pods. On their way as they reached their pods, they exchanged sources to complete their homework and initiated print jobs. As he sat in his pod Anand jumped his pod over Mohan's and disappeared from the view before the blink of an eye. Mohan's frog would be printed and ready at his desk when he reaches home... unless the frog decided no to stay.
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