Bureau of Visual Records

Number 250 “Are you a student?”
Number 6 “Who isn’t. Are you prefects?”
“What are you doing here?”
“Playing truant”

“Come on, we’ll give you a lift.”

“Where to?”
“Home. Hundred percent entry hundred percent pass. You know what the General said.”

“Who’s the General?”
“Come on you don’t want to start the term with a black mark.”

“Alright lets’ go.”

{The Professor having run away from The Village has been caught by a number of his students, and is being manhandled back to The Village}
“Get in Mister.”
“Think he’ll make it?”
“Who’s that?”
“The Professor, he’s due to lecture in a few minutes.”
“He’ll make it. A great man the Professor, treats lectures as though his life depended on it.”
“Alright, lets go.”

                                  
    In order for Number 6 to participate in the three part history course, he has to be, like all the other students, at home and sat in front of the television screen. You see there is a flaw in most plans. The Students either have to be willing, or brainwashed, and they will be by then end of the course. Everyone spouting the same answer to the same question word for word. And the only subject Speedlearn can educate them with is information, it has no practical application. Unless of course, in time people could have a skill imposed on the cortex of the brain in the same way the students in ‘The General.’ That way a person could be given the ability to be an airline pilot, teacher, carpenter, a surgeon, astronaut, scientist, mountaineer, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy. To be able to drive a tank, or be a jet fighter pilot, to be given the knowledge do virtually anything. But then I suppose just being given the ability to do something does not mean that the aptitude could also be transferred, or does it? But then again, if it were possible, put the General, Speedlearn, and the Seltzman machine together, and it might be possible to make almost anyone! Remember the ‘Joe 90’ television series? A nine year old British schoolboy Joe McClaine  who is the adopted son of Professor Ian "Mac" McClaine, a computer expert., The "BIG RAT" (Brain Impulse Galvanoscope Record And Transfer) is Professor McClaine’s latest invention,  a machine capable of recording knowledge and experience from leading experts in various fields and transferring it to another human brain. At the heart of the design is the "Rat Trap": a spherical, rotating cage in which a subject is seated during the transfer of "brain patterns". This process gives Joe 90 any amount of different skills at different times as he worked for the ‘World Intelligence Network.’ The process of Brain Impulse Galvanoscope Record And Transfer was not permanent however, and in time wore off. The link between Joe 90 and the possibilities of Speedlearn is a tenuous one at best, but it just struck that that might be a way in which Speedlearn might have been developed.

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