The Hybrid Future

The year is 2037. I am lying inside a tall glass tube, bathed in a soft green glow in a secret quantum lab in China. Tiny nanobots flood my capillaries, rewriting my biology, fusing flesh with code. My brain— once just a sponge of thoughts— now a supercomputer. Professors in white coats leap with joy. “You’re the first of your kind,” they cry, “the first superhuman on Earth!” When I wake, everything has changed. I see in multiple dimensions. I think a trillion thoughts at once. I can be in New York, Tokyo, and Mars— simultaneously. To others, it looks like magic. To me, it’s normal. But something inside feels... strange. I move faster than time, but I miss the slow touch of a human heartbeat. I solve equations no one else can, but forget the taste of laughter. They built me for progress, but I lost my peace. Now I travel the stars, but I no longer know where home is.