Monday, December 3, 2012

Google Brain Search: A Science Fiction Story by MC Complete


As I walked into the stairwell, I suddenly realized that I didn’t remember where I had parked in the morning.  So I took out my Android phone and opened the application “Google Brain Search”.

Google Brain Search is like Google Search, but instead of searching the internet, it searches your memories.  I typed in “car” as my search term and clicked on the checkbox that said “Show most recent results first”.

The first result read: “Parking my car in the morning.”  Achievement unlocked!  I clicked on the link.  My phone showed a message that said, “Please wait while we load the memory.”

After a few seconds, it happened.  I flashed back to the morning, when I drove slowly through the fourth floor with no open spots, and then saw many open spots on the slope between the fourth and fifth floor.  On the left side, there were two open spots between the white pillars.  I maneuvered awkwardly into the spot on the left, narrowly managing to park between the lines.

As I walked down the stairs to the fourth floor, I thought to myself, “Google Brain Search.  How did we ever live without it?”