A tall metal robot sat silently alone. The robot was confused and had a troubled look on his face. The huge metal contraption scratched its head, its mind focused on thinking. He thought of math equations, scientific laws, and history. He thought of nature, the planets, the animals, the sky, and the sea. Looking back upon the many things he had learned. For he was the smartest one in the world; the one who knew it all. But he was faced with a new problem that was never heard of before. A problem that even his great and all-knowing mechanical brain could not solve. The world had become far advanced and many of its inhabitants were machines. Humans became the minority in this metal futuristic world, but played only a small role in the world today. The robots were in charge of it all; innovative, unchanging, and infallible, creations the robots were, but something was definitely wrong. For years and years, the world stayed the same. Although this developed utopia did things efficiently, nothing had changed for centuries. So one day a human came up to this robot and told him this, "Our world is wonderful and orderly, but somethings just not right! We've stayed in the same spot for a thousands of years, and we haven't gotten better!" The robot was appointed to solve this problem, but he just couldn't figure it out, until one day a mother and her son passed by the sad meditating robot. The kid let go of his mothers hand and ran up to the hunk of iron. He asked the piece of metal what was wrong and the machine replied, "I need to make this world better, but with all the knowledge I know, I don't understand why I haven't found an answer! Run along little boy. You can't help me! Your only a child and by the looks of it, in first grade! How would you know anything about my predicament." The kid stood there angry at what the robot had said, but the anger faded away and was replaced with a happy expression on his face. The boy looked up at the tall robot and told him what he thought, "I can help you Mr. Robot, because I know many things that you don't know! Knowledge that can't be found in books or computers or on the internet sites or from your mechanical friends!" The robot was shocked and was filled with excitement; he desperately asked the boy, "What is it? Tell me now?!" And the little six-year-old said, "Lets create toys that can fly to the stars and back, or something that can travel far beneath the sea! A car that can dig through the ground or maybe some medicine to help my sick grandma! Maybe lets make skate boards that float or a gum that never looses taste! All these things are awesome and cool, so how bout it? What do you think?" The robot answered, "Your crazy! Those things will NEVER happen! Although their "awesome" and "cool", they will never be a reality. What was I thinking asking a kid like you who doesn't know a thing!" The machine walked away, continuing his thought, but the kid smiled and laughed while skipping back to his mom. Many years later, that boy grew up and became a world-renown inventor. This tiny first grade kid, turned into a scientist, much more famous then even the robot. He made space ships that could fly to the stars and back and submarines that could travel to the deepest part of the sea. He created drills that could dig to the center of the earth and cures for many diseases. In the end, the young boy was right, he did have something the robot didn't. And that was imagination, creativity, and ingenuity, things only humans could have. Things that would make a small little boy, better then even the most tallest and intelligent machine.
Draft 1 of my story.
Imagination vs. Reason
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