Literature
DamnGood Teacher: Permanent Record ChapterThirteen
The scene opened with a CGI image of a glowing brain, its neurons and synapses firing in a rainbow palette of neurological activity. A narrator paints a picture that expands upon the scene, telling the viewer, "They say that knowledge is power." Fiber optic cables with branching filaments stretch from the brain and take root in factories, farms, hospitals, and a bank, as the storyteller continues. "Imagine that power fueling our industries, feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and enriching the poor." There begins a close-up of the glowing brain until it completely fills the observer's viewpoint with light. Then the shot recedes, revealing the brilliant brain now encased in a rotating Earth in space. "Imagine a world revitalized by that power. It's not imagination." The scene fades to a daytime exterior shot of an architectural masterpiece, an immense, brilliantly white skyscraper complex made up of a central building overlooking the metropolis that it towered over, commanding a
