When they finally revealed what people were calling the last technology it was no surprise it would be done at the Elon Musk Memorial Center for the Arts, located in southeast Austin. The former site of the Austin Gigafactory. “Giga Texas” as it had previously been called.
The surprise, of course, was what could this new thing do? How could it possibly be the last technology? Wouldn’t other things come after? New gadgets of some kind? New combinations of existing tools, like we’d always had before? Were inventions now doomed? A thing of the past?
How’s that?
You had to see this one if you could: An event billed as ‘the final milestone’ of human progress. Rumors circled deliciously.
Would X Æ A-XII reappear for it? It seemed possible.
Apparently, he was the one who dreamt up the contraption, but no one even knew what HE looked like — at least not anymore. A few baby pictures here and there, but after that, he basically vanished. No one knew where, and though they did know when, not a soul seemed to know exactly how. Most simply concluded he’d gone to Mars without leaving a forwarding address. Or an oversight in the post, surely. But by that time, of course, the postal service could deliver quite literally anything — and as one might send a thing, the recipient intended would as surely and absolutely receive…
