person is able to give and share his own ideas and designs with us. They need to use our specific software for that purpose because we are then able to translate the ideas designed into reality directly with our 3D printer.”
“Do they do that for free?” Mark asked.
“Not always,” John said. “We filter out many of the designs and proposals, but the remaining ideas do make it to our final product and for that we transfer some money to their online bank account for their participation, however, many people do it for free. They just like to see their ideas come to reality through our company.”
“But you have their profile information. Don’t you?” Mark asked.
“Yes, I have printed it here for you on this document. The problem is that their details might not be authentic,” John said. “From now on we will be asking for their authentic IDs, but even IDs can be faked.”
Mark looked at the list of the names and their design ideas on the document, and he found the name ‘Mr. Young Nimrod ’ opposite to the term ‘blue light emitters’ under the proposal column.
“Do you have more details about this developer?” Mark asked.
“Here are more details,” John threw another document which seemed to have a computer generated drawing of the detailed circuitry for the 120 diodes. In the lower part, the details of its designer were listed:
Name: Mr. Young Nimrod
Age: 32
Profession: Inventor
Address: 44 Myfake Road, New Delhi, 212003, India
Email: [email protected]
“This address is clearly false!” Mark said.
“I know and I realized that today. Unfortunately, he doesn’t respond to our emails,” John said. “As I said to date we haven’t checked the authenticity of the profiles of our software users. We do have many users having similar accounts, and we plan to be stricter from now on.”
“And did he give you his bank account?” Mark asked.
“No, unfortunately he is a free volunteer,” John answered.
“And who is responsible for filtering the proposed ideas before publishing?” Mark asked.
“Me,” John said, “and I don’t understand the technical parts of the design, but I have read the short description and I thought it looked good to have some small blue light emitters on the outer surface of the helmet just for the aesthetics and to make it look more technical. As you know, we are competing with several other companies, and from my experience, customers tend to buy electronic stuff that looks more advanced. I thought a set of 120 blue emitters was a cool idea to make the helmet appear sleeker. Now, I really regret choosing that design for our final product because it has brought a lot of unnecessary suspicion toward me. You really need to believe me.”
“Can I please take these documents with me?” Mark said referring to the design and the list of the names.
“Yes, of course,” John replied.
Mark didn’t sense any abnormal behavior from John to indicate that he was lying or hiding something, though it was hard for him to believe John’s story that the main reason for making 120 brain reading sensors emit a blue light was just for aesthetics. This was especially true now that Mark knew that there was a real brain controlling technology which used blue lights in its design, so he decided to inform Interpol to put John and Prof. Sanders on their surveillance and monitor their communications.
Once Mark came out from Virtual-world™ he turned to Hast. “What do you think about John? Did he look to you like the Antichrist?” he said with a humorous voice.
Hast laughed. “He doesn’t have the signs of Antichrist, but I didn’t believe his story at all.”
Chapter 10
Before heading back to the airport, Hast had a tour of Cambridge with Mark and visited some of its ancient landmarks. This was the first time he had visited the city that he had read about on many occasions. When he was training for his English
“Do they do that for free?” Mark asked.
“Not always,” John said. “We filter out many of the designs and proposals, but the remaining ideas do make it to our final product and for that we transfer some money to their online bank account for their participation, however, many people do it for free. They just like to see their ideas come to reality through our company.”
“But you have their profile information. Don’t you?” Mark asked.
“Yes, I have printed it here for you on this document. The problem is that their details might not be authentic,” John said. “From now on we will be asking for their authentic IDs, but even IDs can be faked.”
Mark looked at the list of the names and their design ideas on the document, and he found the name ‘Mr. Young Nimrod ’ opposite to the term ‘blue light emitters’ under the proposal column.
“Do you have more details about this developer?” Mark asked.
“Here are more details,” John threw another document which seemed to have a computer generated drawing of the detailed circuitry for the 120 diodes. In the lower part, the details of its designer were listed:
Name: Mr. Young Nimrod
Age: 32
Profession: Inventor
Address: 44 Myfake Road, New Delhi, 212003, India
Email: [email protected]
“This address is clearly false!” Mark said.
“I know and I realized that today. Unfortunately, he doesn’t respond to our emails,” John said. “As I said to date we haven’t checked the authenticity of the profiles of our software users. We do have many users having similar accounts, and we plan to be stricter from now on.”
“And did he give you his bank account?” Mark asked.
“No, unfortunately he is a free volunteer,” John answered.
“And who is responsible for filtering the proposed ideas before publishing?” Mark asked.
“Me,” John said, “and I don’t understand the technical parts of the design, but I have read the short description and I thought it looked good to have some small blue light emitters on the outer surface of the helmet just for the aesthetics and to make it look more technical. As you know, we are competing with several other companies, and from my experience, customers tend to buy electronic stuff that looks more advanced. I thought a set of 120 blue emitters was a cool idea to make the helmet appear sleeker. Now, I really regret choosing that design for our final product because it has brought a lot of unnecessary suspicion toward me. You really need to believe me.”
“Can I please take these documents with me?” Mark said referring to the design and the list of the names.
“Yes, of course,” John replied.
Mark didn’t sense any abnormal behavior from John to indicate that he was lying or hiding something, though it was hard for him to believe John’s story that the main reason for making 120 brain reading sensors emit a blue light was just for aesthetics. This was especially true now that Mark knew that there was a real brain controlling technology which used blue lights in its design, so he decided to inform Interpol to put John and Prof. Sanders on their surveillance and monitor their communications.
Once Mark came out from Virtual-world™ he turned to Hast. “What do you think about John? Did he look to you like the Antichrist?” he said with a humorous voice.
Hast laughed. “He doesn’t have the signs of Antichrist, but I didn’t believe his story at all.”
Chapter 10
Before heading back to the airport, Hast had a tour of Cambridge with Mark and visited some of its ancient landmarks. This was the first time he had visited the city that he had read about on many occasions. When he was training for his English
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