[handwritten / audio]

[neonnerd]

[The beginning of this entry is filled with what looks like pieces of lecture notes, a mishmash of engineering calculations and medical facts, mixed in with half explanations and unfinished anecdotes. It's mostly organized, equations on one side and medical concerns on the other, but the overall result is probably still a bit confusing, as Benjamin writes whatever comes to his mind. It's how he's taken to preparing lecture notes for his classes - only this time, he's written down the number that's stuck in his mind and then continued on without realizing it.

Fortunately, it isn't too long before he notices the change in his whiteboard, and then his attention is, quite obviously, very far from lecture preparation.]

This is quite unexpected. And - fascinating. How is this possible? I'm quite certain I would have noticed before now, had my whiteboard been capable of user interface. Did they replace it while I was gone? This would be much more convenient, though there was nothing wrong with the traditional version, I can easily make do with markers and -

No, this is something far different. How many people can read this?

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[Voice]

[neonnerd]

Yes, I can see that. There isn't really any going back, after something like this, it must be hard to imagine a time without it.

[Voice]

[dododo]

Oh, I can imagine it. Those were the days.

[Voice]

[neonnerd]

And to think, I once thought a mountain of term papers was the biggest of my problems.

[Voice]

[dododo]

Your problems will be at quite a different scale now.

[ And by that he doesn't mean the size or weight of them, but just that there's nothing like them. ]

[Voice]

[neonnerd]

Yes - but so will my discoveries. It seems as though there's so much unknown to uncover.

[Voice]

[dododo]

And very little to help us.

[Voice]

[neonnerd]

That's rather a defeatist attitude.

[Voice]

[dododo]

I'm afraid it's the truth. We do our best with what we have, but it's unfortunately not much.

[Voice]

[neonnerd]

That's why uncovering more seems to be much needed.

[Voice]

[dododo]

You think we're not working on it?

It's like the beginning of a research project where you hardly have anything but theories.

[Voice]

[neonnerd]

Certainly not, even if I hadn't been informed otherwise, I don't doubt that many would be working on uncovering explanations. I meant as a collective.

Normally I'd say that's a very exciting place to be, but it's quite different under the circumstances.

[Voice]

[dododo]

It is equal amounts of frustrating.