Two Worlds at a Time

Education was a huge industry in the universe, and it was not the way of conventional education that was currently known using books, pens, and PCs. It was a much higher level form of education for the masses.

You see, like humans, other species also found the problem of vast knowledge to be precarious. One had a limited amount of time to live, and if a person went on to just study and study from basic algebra to mind-boggling theorems, it would take ages for someone to finish. And most of these people would hate to study for hundreds of years, taking into account that the average life of humans had been lengthened a lot.

So in order to cope with the learning capacity of each of the species, they came up with a novel idea. The idea was to input knowledge directly into the brain. Yes, the current technology would allow anyone, be it the dumbest guy in the history of mankind, to become the most knowledgeable guy in the history of mankind with just some instruments.

Now, this did have a safety issue, and that was one could use it to put illogical things into the brain and make a person dumber and even use this technology to ’hack’ into a brain. So, in order to cope with this safety issue, there was a separate administration of the galactic federation that looked over the education department and didn’t need to answer to the council nor the empires.

First, the instrument would be made in such a way that it was un-hackable. Use of any technology ranging from wave communication, quantum communications, dark matter channels, subspace communication channels, and even the basic forms of communication like wires would still not lead to the instrument’s safety measures being compromised.

And the knowledge that would be inserted into the brain was a very controlled industry, and it was under the eyes of law enforcement at all times. Of course, that didn’t mean that there were empires who didn’t try to use this technology to make a narrative for the masses and control them, but all failed under the joint assault of the galactic federation of education.

Thus, this technology was now used in schools where they would come and be injected with knowledge every day. The one knowledge they would have to learn in school and through the old ways was about social culture. The subjects like history, science, mathematics, legal knowledge, and other such subjects would be directly injected.

The instrument one could buy easily, but there was a big price tag on it. One million Sora credits approx. When Aric came to know of this technology, he knew that he would have to get his hands on this. There was no way he didn’t want to be the most learned person in history, and this was his way of becoming a renowned scientist of the world, triumphing over everyone that came before him.

And thus, he saved for months, and now finally the instrument was about to arrive. After meeting with his father, he was back at Echorysia, at the same storage unit he had been using for months. If God willing, he would be using this same place for many years to come.