The First Great Leap - the Great Leap towards the Industrialization of China
The Second Great Leap - the Leap to Decentralize China
The Third Great Leap - the Leap to repair China.......an inavitable leap.
July 4th, 2098.
Millions of Chinese voices shouted as they shouted in joy.
The Yangtze river had been reclaimed!
Sounds insane doesn´t it?
Who in their right minds would consider it even a possible task in the year 2009, that a hundred years later, an entire river system could be brought into it´s natural condition?
Those who´re smart enough, that´s who.
Those who understand the power to control information.
The new empire, the Information Empire.
It wasn´t a much centralized empire though.
It is an empire which stretches itself all across the North and South Pole, and it´s members are proud to call it the conception of the Information Age.
But interestingly, a major turn of events took place.
It was realized that the Age of Enlightenment was really not someplace in the 1800´s or the 1900´s as had been previously thought.
Despite the steam engine once again reigned supreme, it was a fact of life for everyone that there are other alternatives.
Ore bearing asteroids were a major source of income to what was now becoming increasingly richer, previously poor nations.
Consider Uganda - Uganda´s space programme had increased expotentially since it was first realized by Idi Amin Dada.
It´d turn out to be certainly not one of the 100 worst ideas in history as some had claimed in the 20th century.
In fact, Uganda was benefitting enormously from it´s space programme.
Consider Tunisia - Tunisia had a space programme too!
This day was a remarkable day because the Mayor of Nabo City, China´s new capitol, opened access to the new Yantze river.
Many women cried because the rainbow was so beautiful which could be seen over the river.
The rainbow was a sign of welcome into the 22nd century.
People couldn´t believe their own eyes.
Below them, they could see Yangtze River Dolphins.
A child told her mother ´is it true they were extinct once?´
´Yes´she said. ´This was done as a result of an international collaboration. A century ago, a man wrote a short story describing just this - they didn´t listen to him, he didn´t care about it and went straight ahead - he cared about his vision - that man´s vision became truth to millions of us. Some of us wonder if he was the reincarnation of Mao Zedong´.
´Enough of this ding dong nonsense, I´m a kid!´the child replied.
´Ma, why did they even bother damming the river in the first place?´
´Well´the mother explained joyously ´there was a great demand for advancement in terms of energy supplies, or what they then called ´progress´. Now we have other methods to utilize energy usage. Today, China may still be regarded as a threat to the world because we still have some control over Tibet - but I am douptful if the Tibetans of the past will even recognize that control today because of how dissimilar it is, to the control methods used then´.
´I understand you ma, we learnt all about it in school and I saw lots of it on TV´.
´Yes. Today, the Yangtze River is still perceived as the old Yangtze, so we really don´t see it as being that new´.
´I don´t understand. Are you bloody nuts ma?´
´No. I´m not nuts anymore than you´she said and laughed as she smiled, ´you see, if we had kept going where we were going then, I wouldn´t be here talking with you´.
´You´re right´the child responded. ´But I´m still glad that the river is back.´
Once the Chinese had underestimated the Icelandic people, and the Icelandic people them, but now, everyone talked about the Information Empire.
But even that empire, was a target, a target of the endless overexpansion of information exchange taking place within it´s perimiters and beyound.
And it existed mostly in name only.
Some had disagreements and wanted to break it up, and others feared the ever growing numbers of reclaimed rivers.
There were even theories that too much oxygen would eventually poison everything, but those theories could be easily disproved.
So how did they do it?
Simple.
They used molds, which would contain surface material able to withstand the heat of burning lava.
In turn, sand taken from the old dam would be put into the molds and slowly used to rebuild the missing gorge of the Yangtze River gorges, until gorge upon gorge had been rebuilt.
Each mold would be built over another mold, and thousands upon hundreds of thousands, millions of times would slowly rebuild this or that lost or missing gorge.
Iceland had already tried with the Karahnjukar region, and the Magical Fall (Töfrafoss) was now back in it´s former pre - Karahnjukar Dam condition.
The first time people saw rebuilt gorges, they couldn´t believe their own eyes - then their eyes simply told them to stop being so silly and take note of the trees beyound the forest.
So, the new mania would make it possible to rebuild every river system which had once been lost.
The Information Empire was a vast empire, responsible for the building of most of the reclaimed gorges, some of their rivers were still used to harness electricity, but this time obelisks were being used instead of the old hydraulics.
The people of the 2090´s call the hydraulics then the New Hydraulics, even though everyone knows that they base this hydraulics upon ancient Egyptian and such concepts, because of the ability of the ancient Egyptians to use their obelisks to provide their towns and cities with enough electricity to power plasma light bulps.
When the ceremony was over, the mayor left and everyone waved in turn as he left.
There was a mutual agreement between the mayor and the citizens, that it was pointless to return the Yangtze River back to it´s formal Yangtze River dam period, because it was understood how much damage the dam had done to China´s economy, and similar dam projects.
Despite the United States was celebrating it´s July 4th the same day, China decided to choose this date for the completion of Yangtze´s reclamation.
Replies