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"We're going to put this on your head," they told him,
showing him the headband. "It will feel odd but it will not hurt
you." When they slipped it over his forehead it made all his
muscles jump, as if he'd been startled. Then sleep came with a
rush.
Through his slumber he dreamed of a stampede of mad oxen
trampling through the farmlands, through the town, through his
very home. They were possessed by the god of oxen, and that god
was furious. The oxen were everywhere, jabbing their horns and
crushing with their hooves. They swept everything away; his home,
his sons, his grandchildren. He heard women crying in anguish.
When he awoke, it was abrupt. He felt dizzy, and his forehead
was damp with cold sweat. He stared up at the boxes with the
colored lights and said, "Computer!" The word, even as he said it,
startled him, and the concept behind it was bizarre. "Microchip!"
he said. "They're made of dirt!" Disoriented as he was, this
fact gave him a spasm of joy.
A great understanding seemed to be trying to catch up to him.
He could feel it coming up from behind, thundering along on a
hundred-thousand mad hooves. Technica! he thought. A church of
science! Truth! Great thought! The understanding swept over him,
trampling him. Crushing him over and over again. Technica
collected the great minds of humanity. They thought he was one of
them. They thought he had invented the wheel! Either the god of
good fortune was in love with him, or the god of practical jokes.

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This was a prank of horrible proportions!

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Elko sat at the table by himself with his plate of gourmet
cafeteria food in front of him, untouched. That day Professor
Burns had taken him out on a balcony on the top floor of the West
Tower, and let him behold the wonders of 22nd century
civilization. It spread like a carpet across the Livermore Valley,
covering the mountains to the west and continuing on to the sea.
"Wheels," Raymond had told him. "Everywhere you look, you see
wheels. It all started with you, Elko. The cart you built for your
father. You are the father of everything you see today. The day
you put that cart together was the decisive moment in the history
of Mankind."
Even with his new found understanding of this alien world
called "The Future," this concept still boggled his mind. These
people had build a devices that, though manipulating the basic
fabric of reality, was able to reach back through the ages and
scoop him out of the water. They saved his life and brought him
here so they could honor him as the father of technology, and