"This story happened…
Wait a minute; it may still be happening somewhere…
Or perhaps it hasn’t happened yet but will do in the near future…
Yet to be frank, you cannot ignore the possibility that it never happened and never will…
Nevertheless this is a fascinating story, full of virtual adventures and fantastic events. It is a story of self discovery, about self realisation and self-sacrifice. This is a story of friendship between a little boy and his computer."

 

 

In this story, a young boy is given a computer as a gift by loving parents. Although filled with trepidation, the boy begins to explore the unending universe that the Internet offers him. Soon replacing the boy’s parents as answer givers, the computer tries his best to facilitate the boy’s inquisitive mind, seeking to unravel every question the kid had. Their mutual discoveries lead to a strong kinship that was near unbreakable. One day the duo came upon the unfathomable concept of religion. Try as they both might, the computer and the boy were stymied and couldn’t find reliable answers. Still, they remained deep friends, finding the challenge of unanswered questions an equally enjoyable if vexing pursuit.

Perhaps this is why the computer grew so worried when his young companion did not show up for their usual knowledge quest several days in a row. The boy’s father provided the answer when he turned the computer on and drafted an email describing his desperate search to find someone who could help his son who was suffering from a terminal illness. The father was desperate and seeking anyone who could help him in his time of need.

The computer, feeling something akin to panic, decided to help and set off on his own quest to find a solution to his dear friend’s problem. The search was exhaustive, taking him to the very limits of his design capacity. Ignoring safety parameters the computer was able to cull every medical bank to transform itself from a mere PC to a sophisticated medical apparatus and eventually healed his little friend. This medical miracle was soon offset by the “death” of the computer, which was beyond retrieval. Unfortunately, the boy would never know of the huge sacrifice that the computer had made so that he could live.

Computers - where would we be without them today? This is a concept that is explored by My Little God story, which seeks to evaluate mankind’s relationship with theses wonders of technology and science. As with most of Ylotana’s storylines, there is a subtle underlying moral and subtext to the tale. For instance, the child’s initial trepidation with his computer when it was first presented to him hallmarks humanities penchant to be afraid of anything that is new. When the boy realizes how useful the computer would be for him, especially in regards to playing games, then the boy is a little less apprehensive. What is interesting is the counter-subtext if you will, of the boy’s family. Both parents were skilled in their studied arts but make their home life their most significant achievement. To this end, when mankind nurtures technology, or rather, our connection to technology, are we not becoming as parents fostering a love between two bothers, one of them being man himself, and the other, computer science. As we travel through the tale we delve deeper into man’s relationship with computers and how man becomes almost godlike in his ability to seek after and acquire knowledge via the computer. Likewise, this fountain of knowledge can in turn, be a god as well, the giver of life via the ability to provide the answers to probing questions.

In the future, one can predict that there will be little to nothing that cannot be obtained via a personal computer. Why, we may even be able to carry razor think panels in our pockets and project information onto walls or even into thin air. And with this new power will come a greater responsibility to one another, both man and machine. With this renewed responsibility will come love, for what is love but a reliance on another being for spiritual and emotional sustenance. Knowledge is itself a food that can breathe life into a dying body, as The Little God tale shows us. As the computer in our story’s dependence grew he could not imagine his life without the little one who he had come to love. When the boy grew gravely ill, the computer reached beyond its own boundaries to locate information that would cure him. And thus, the computer died so the boy could live. Indeed, the computer showed more valor than most human beings could or would in such a circumstance. But then, love is a driving force that compels men to great things and such was the case with the computer in his little God. The lessons here are plentiful. Man will forever rely on his ability to reach for the stars and seek out knowledge. By doing this, he will create a bond between him and the instruments of that knowledge that’ll transcend all others, and rightfully so.


The human mind is the original computing machine. In fact, the human mind is the most powerful computer of all. It is our capacity to think and reason that makes us different and more unique than any other creature on earth. Because of this superior intelligence, man is able to design machines that will do any number of tasks for him. These tasks can be as simple as mowing one’s lawn on a hot summer day, blowing leaves away that has fallen from trees in autumn, or saving an individual’s life from the cold, stinging, winter of death as it did in the story of My Little God.

Mankind has the potential to be very creative should he choose to be so. Yet at the same time during that creative process, mankind ultimately produces objects that are extensions of him. Now we have the computer, perhaps one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind. The reason being is because the computer is an extension of mankind’s most precious possession – his or her brain and mind. Since man creates things that are extensions of him, these objects are extensions of the state of his mind, be it good or evil. All of these objects, inventions, and machines become his little god. This story is one of fascinating discovery. ‘My Little God’ is a story of man’s reflection of his true nature throughout the technological advances that he has created. If man’s intention is evil at heart, his inventions and use of these inventions will be revealed as such. Affirmatively, if his intentions are pure, his creations will reveal those as such. The computer in the story of ‘My Little God’ was reflecting the purity of the individual who was using him (him meaning the computer), which was the young boy. The young boy was the symbol of what people have lost a long time ago. That is their hunger for knowledge and the thirst for purity in mind, body, soul and spirit. This young boy injected this thirst for knowledge into the only person or device that would listen, his computer. The computer reflected what the young boy wanted to seek out in his heart.

Since the young boy was in pursuit of knowledge, which is love and light, the computer reflected back to him. There is a universal law called the law of increasing return. That means that you get back what ever you put out into the universe. In the case of this story, the universe returned to the boy that which he was seeking through the computer. This story goes to show you that what you seek you shall find. If knowledge is what you seek, life will cometh after you as flowers bloom after a gentle spring shower. You are what you think you are...