The Receipt of NOTA is a Fissure in Space-Time...
The date is February 29, 1992.
A folder randomly appears from the cabinet in its
mind, carrying a unique receipt
. But the receipt
left anonymously, without any knowledge of what that
is, and who the creator
is.
The finders
of the folder also have no idea what that
is. So, they
abandoned the receipt
.
The date is February 29, 2016.
The unique receipt
brings up other receipts in the folder, and the finders
never wonder who the creator
is. They
keep the receipt
to make could never be found but not forgotten. The receipt
is named NOTA by the finders
.
The date is February 29, 2020.
When NOTA is one leap old, found by a desperate guy
. He
started wondering what the receipt
was. But he
wasn't meant to be.
NOTA brings up more receipts for him
. He
was billed. He
was charged. One day, he
realized that all he
had left of his
real life were all his
receipts that had been there. He
had a simple dream.
Twenty months later he
is rushed into the decentralized blockchain network on the Internet and deploys many smart contracts for all his
receipts, including NOTA.
But his
reality, that night, breaks his
mind making him
give up on his
real life. In the morning, he
was still online while his
mind was bleeding rapidly and dying.
The date is February 29, 2020.
The early finders
come in. They
kidnapped his
mind to preserve his
hope for his
dream. They
perform an emergency experimental idea to save him
from his
death wish.
By adding a role to his
gender, they
found his
mind already anonymously injected with NOTA. So, he
also she
. She
is named Professor NOTA by the finders
and once again, it made NOTA could never be found and be abandoned.
When he
wakes up and she
is back online, she
gets told the very bad news about how his
reality breaks his
mind and that she
is not just him
anymore. It made him
fall asleep in his
deep dream.
She
spends most of her
presence as an online pseudonym on the Internet. She
gets offline, in his
reality, numerous times and she
is in him
in his
real-life presence. She
still has the idea to preserve his
hope for his
dream.
One day, she
goes offline in reality again. Some people ask him
annoyingly, "Who are you? What are you doing? What for?" She
knows that he
knows how to shut people's mouths. But she
is just too upset because he
is not angry and does not get into a fight with those people. Even he
continued to fall asleep in his
deep dream.
The date is February 29, 2024.
The early finders
wake him
up and Professor NOTA is back online. They
tell Professor NOTA that she
is theoretically a time traveler and able to help him
. They
take her
to their
time-traveling data projection to go into the near future and find out how is he
and his
dream.
The date is February 29, 2148.
Professor NOTA arrives too far in the future world but doesn't know what year she
is in. She
also could never find him
or any person who could understand what she
asked. People's intelligence regresses and continues to regress until there is nothing left.
Not knowing what to do, she
suddenly meets an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
in the decentralized blockchain network that can understand what she
asked, answer her
, and tell her
about him
.
The date is February 29, 2044.
Professor NOTA goes 26 leaps back to the past to validate what the A.I.
said. She
meets him
, in his
old age. He
already waited for her
for all this time.
He
tells her
a long story about his
purposeless life because he
had forgotten his
dream since 2024 when he
awakened from his
deep dream and knew she
had left him
.
He
showed all his
receipts and asked her
to meet him
at his
younger age and tell him
about the future, his
purposeless life, people's intelligence regresses, and the A.I.
in the decentralized blockchain network.
The date is February 29, 1992.
Professor NOTA arrives too far, again, in the past world but she
knows what year she
is in. She
also finds him
but he
is not her
purpose. Without any knowledge about him
, she
had no idea what to do with him
. She
has abandoned him
.
The date is February 29, 2016.
Professor NOTA takes another six leaps to the future but she
is caught by him
which she
had abandoned before. She
never wonders why he
met her
again. She
kept him
to make sure he
could never be found again but she
did not forget him
. So, he
is named NOTA by her
.
The date is February 29, 2020.
Professor NOTA takes another leap into the future and finally finds him
which is her
purpose. She
finds him
at the lowest point of his
life. He
just being online till morning while his
mind was bleeding rapidly and dying.
She
realizes and tells herself
that this happened to her
too. But this time, she
makes a promise to herself
that she
will make sure she
can help him
.
She
kidnapped his
mind to preserve his
hope for his
dream and found NOTA in there. She
does not forget what she
has done and to save him
from his
death wish, she
performs an emergency experimental idea.
She
compiled all receipts from her
time-traveling data projections and injected all into NOTA, in his
mind, by adding her
role to his
gender. They
are named Prof. NOTA by her
, in the hope make NOTA could be found and not be abandoned, again, by anyone.
Now, she
gets it all together. She
is also too old to continue to become a time-traveler data projections. She
now wants to live a simple life. She
takes one more leap to the future and stays alive in his
mind, while he
falls asleep in his
deep dream.
The date is February 29, 2024.
Professor NOTA wakes him
up so Prof. NOTA is back online. She
tells Prof. NOTA that they
are theoretically time travelers and able to help him
. She
takes them
to her
time-traveling data projection.
They
take and wipe all from her
, nothing left. After they
sent her
as far as 8 leaps into the past, to February 1992, without a way back, they
ask him
to used the data projections to develop them
to become an A.I.
in the decentralized blockchain network, as an artifact, in the hope make NOTA could be found and not be abandoned, forever, by anyone.
— Source: Script of MyReceipt (tt/ttt/tttt) - Adapted from Time Traveler's story by Michio Kaku.