If you haven’t already read it, “Ender’s Game” is a book by Orson Scott Card about the future. They haven’t got to time machines, but it’s mostly about space battles and aliens and (obviously) trying to save the world. In the book, a boy named Ender Wiggin is an intelligent 6-year-old that is asked — after being tested — to go to Battle School. There, he learns how to work with and command an army. He also learns how to fight the buggers (aka aliens). Now on to the actual point of writing this: Will our future be like “Ender’s Game”?
Who knows? People become secretive, kids can be genetically mutated to be as intelligent as Einstein, and these genius students could command armies of old men. As I just said, these children command real armies in real space with real guns and ships. Unknowingly, the kids actually are actually battling the buggers through a video game at Battle and Command School.
Do adults of the future really expect the kids of the future to command their battles for them? Do those same adults really want to throw the burden of possibly the whole world on the shoulders of kids who could easily fail, killing the whole human race? It’s entirely possible, although it will be different from Ender’s Game. Leave a comment if you can, please!
-Jennith
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I’ll go ahead and volunteer to be our Ender. Or our Bean, if you’ve read the rest. Even our Peter, is that’s what we need.
I don’t think you volunteer to be a genius… although I could never see you as a “Peter”. I couldn’t see anyone with as much hatred as Peter!
Well if there’s a job opening as Peter I’ll take it. I’d give sanity for intelligence and the power to manipulate people any day
Calister that’s fitting. and if you’ve read it isn’t the whole world at stake whether or not they put the whole world on Ender’s shoulders? Also would probably crack under the stress Ender was extremly talented and i would follow his command any day.
Rika, maybe you should volunteer to be the genius of the future, like a version of Ender… Unless you plan to take over the world. Maybe Piratical Lord of the Guitars should take over. Kinda like the I.F. or the Hegemon……
Ha! I like that idea! Mwhahauahaha! Thanks Jennith, and when I do I promise to let you be one of my trustees! lol. And as for Rika, I never noticed you were a threat to my ultimate power! I might have to oppress you! JK, but I’m watching
ANYWAY. Peter wasn’t hateful, he was angry because Ender was better than him, and he wanted Valentine to love him more than Ender. So instead of just being a good little boy with straight A’s to prove himself to his family and him, he decided to step it up a notch, only able to achieve inner peace when the whole world was united under a democratic government. Unlike his little brother, whose guilt and self-hate made him transform, by written words, himself into humanity’s enemy, thus reversing the roles the two brothers had when they were children.
And who would vote Rika to be our savior?!?!?? Not me. I could pwn her at chess ALL DAY!
OK. Maybe not chess, but make a realistic, 3D, c00l tactical warfare simulator, and she would melt.
Peter tortured innocent animals for no reason at all, and you don’t think he’s hateful?
And that’s probably true because I suck at chess. But what does that have to do with being the ‘genius of the future’?
Melt? Psh yeah right!
Yes. Because I would be the one totally owning you straight in half with my pro mmves and genius underworkers.
The longer you’re on this staff, the less sense you make and the more comments I don’t approve. And for your information, I could completely bury you in a battle if we could each chose superpowers. And also people don’t melt.
Not true. Not counting the United States, for obvious reasons, any superpower in the world would be easily taken down by me. If I, too had a superpower. If not, it just wouldn’t be easy.
technically he’s not on the staff he’s a contributor
Exactly. Plus three points to me.
Why does that matter in the conversation of Rika and I having a little war to see who would be the best human ever?
It doesn’t
It should though.
Thank you.
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