Vk Fourstone
ISAAC LEROY, young engineer and inventor, is intending to sell his creative energy in order to solve his financial problems, getting a big premium. The selling of creativity has become possible due to the invention of the brilliant professor JEREMY LINK, who has created a bio-computer which can put human ideas together. Einsteiner is not an artificial intellect, it’s a system whose productivity directly depends on the amount of people downloading their energy. The creator of this invention, the most important in the history, disappeared without a trace after submitting the downloading technology to the UN - an organization independent from states and corporations. “CREATIVITY” or “ORANGE ENERGY” (OE) is the planet’s new strategic resource. This is how they call the creative potential, gladly bought from people by COLLECTIVE MIND – the agency specially created by the UN. The compensation paid is very substantial. Having sold the creativity, the person loses all their imagination and fantasy, becoming a HAPPY – rich, content and plain. Thus more and more people, especially those with no money and good prospects at the moment, are willing to download their energy. The creativity hand-off gains popularity; people want to be happy and have all their problems solved at once. Einsteiner sums up all existing knowledge and developments, easily giving solutions for previously unsolvable tasks. Thus the diseases like cancer and AIDS are vanquished, dissolvable plastic and many more new materials are created. Ecological issues are left behind, crime is almost liquidated. The world has changed a great deal, having become much more perfect and trouble-free. Collective Mind makes fantastic profits selling the newest technologies and patents, easily recouping the money paid to its donors. Deeply in debt, Isaac decides to sell his orange energy in order to pay the surgery of his step-sister VICKY, his only loved one. He feels sad and desperate – he almost managed to record patent fo
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