What If You Woke Up in 2100? — Transcript

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1. 0:01Imagine this. You open your eyes on a normal morning.
2. 0:07Your hand reaches for your phone. It's not there. And floating in the air... one line.
3. 0:15Twenty-one hundred? Okay. Good one, Danny.
4. 0:19Emotional spike detected. Please remain calm.
5. 0:23Did a toaster just tell me to stop laughing?
6. 0:29In twenty-one hundred, nobody laughs. Nobody cries. Nobody feels anything at all. Except you. And by tonight, that will make you the most dangerous man alive.
7. 0:44At first you think it's a dream. Or someone's weird joke. Then you walk to the window... and your whole body freezes.
8. 0:53The city isn't in ruins. It's beautiful. Trees growing out of skyscrapers. Trains gliding through the air. And not a single sound.
9. 1:11Good morning, Adam. I'm Iris, your adaptation officer. You've been asleep for seventy-four years.
10. 1:17Seventy-four... years?
11. 1:20Please lower your heart rate. You're upsetting the building.
12. 1:28The street is full of people. Nobody's staring at a phone. Nobody's in a hurry. Nobody's arguing. Every face has the same cold calm.
13. 1:39Excuse me... is it really twenty-one hundred?
14. 1:42Return to the adaptation zone. Your heart rate is above normal. That's dangerous.
15. 1:51That's when you notice it. Behind every ear... a tiny sensor. Blinking blue.
16. 1:58Okay. First things first. What's the Wi-Fi password?
17. 2:02What is... Wi-Fi?
18. 2:05No phones. The internet just opens wherever you look.
19. 2:10Is TikTok still a thing?
20. 2:13Tik... tok?
21. 2:15Great. I'm a fossil.
22. 2:18One cheeseburger, please.
23. 2:22Oh... that is SO good.
24. 2:25What is... this? On my face?
25. 2:29That's a smile, man.
26. 2:31Money is gone. Hunger is gone. And for the first time in forty years... a man just smiled.
27. 2:42That guy is a hundred and thirty-one?
28. 2:45Average lifespan is one hundred forty-two.
29. 2:49Cool. So technically, I'm a hundred and two.
30. 2:53Sorry. I don't know what that was.
31. 2:58And then you get it. It's not just you who feels. It's catching.
32. 3:04Na-na-na... hey! Come on!
33. 3:08Wherever you go... people remember how.
34. 3:14Stop. Please. If Balance sees this again, they will rebalance you.
35. 3:20Rebalance? What does that mean?
36. 3:23You stop feeling. Forever.
37. 3:29You run to the public archive. You need to know what happened to the world.
38. 3:37By the middle of the century, the world was exhausted. Stress. Depression. Wars. Endless fighting.
39. 3:46So humanity made the biggest decision in its history. Neuro-Balance. A chip that shuts off every dark feeling. Anger. Envy. Hate. Deep grief.
40. 4:01The wars stopped. Crime dropped to zero. Poverty disappeared.
41. 4:07But there was a price. The chip couldn't tell the dark feelings from the bright ones. Real love. Excitement. Joy. Dreams. It switched off everything.
42. 4:23Then the real blow lands. Your best friend. Your mother. Everyone you ever knew... a whole generation, already in the ground.
43. 4:35In twenty-one hundred, there isn't one soul on Earth who isn't a stranger to you.
44. 4:46The pain and the loneliness just pour out of you. Right there, in the middle of the square... you start to cry. Loud.
45. 4:55Every tear is something this world doesn't understand.
46. 5:02Warning. Level one emotional malfunction detected.
47. 5:05Nobody in twenty-one hundred has ever seen a man cry in the street. They don't look at you with hate. They look at you like a patient.
48. 5:18Level three. Contagion detected.
49. 5:22And then... they start crying with you.
50. 5:28Adam. Nobody is going to hurt you. We only want to switch off the pain.
51. 5:33They don't want to punish you. They want to switch you off.
52. 5:40Run.
53. 5:41Iris... your light.
54. 5:43I know. Run!
55. 5:47There's only one place left in this city that knows who you are.
56. 5:56You run back to the quiet room where you woke up. On the room console... your personal archive. And one video. From twenty twenty-six.
57. 6:09If you're watching this... they finally did it. They built a world without pain.
58. 6:16I'm so tired of hurting. So I signed. Wake me up when nobody on Earth is suffering anymore.
59. 6:26You didn't come here by accident. Nobody kidnapped you. You signed it. With your own hand.
60. 6:32This cold, silent world you're running from... is the perfect world you once wished for with your whole heart.
61. 6:42You asked for this world, Adam. We kept our promise. One second, behind the ear... and you'll never hurt again.
62. 6:50The peace you were looking for... was this. Forget every pain, every memory, and join them. Or stay the last real human on Earth... and hurt.
63. 7:04Is this... what it feels like?
64. 7:07Yeah. It hurts, right?
65. 7:10I don't want it to stop.
66. 7:12No.
67. 7:16Let him finish.
68. 7:18My name is Adam. I'm from twenty twenty-six. Where I come from, people cry. And laugh. And love each other so much it hurts. You're allowed to feel that.
69. 7:36I'd forgotten.
70. 7:38One by one... the city wakes up.
71. 7:43Love came back. So did anger. The first siren in fifty years.
72. 7:51So... did you save them? Or did you doom them?
73. 7:59If you could switch off all your pain... but lose every joy with it... would you? Tell us in the comments.