" The future was conceived by digitizing everything, that computer of a ton of weight created in the 70s by IBM, today processes less information than the most obsolete cell phone. It was incompressible to me as in a small device a chip can do everything, as if there were a god in there who does what you ask, or a genius like the wonderful lamp that fulfills all your desires. Millions of microscopic pieces that fit in that millimeter chip, what experts called nanotechnology. That does seem a thing of evil. Pieces so tiny that they are imperceptible to the eye.

There could be millions of those pieces in a room and occupy a minimum space. I, like Santo Tomas, what I do not see, I do not believe it.

The hot coffee fell on my legs burning not gravitationally, but it was quite painful and all for thinking about those trivialities.

The waitress who came to help me had a very nice and spontaneous smile, I had observed her when entering that cafeteria, although that gesture turned into one of fright when she began to dry the pants that covered my legs with great trouble before my face. burning for that burn. "

" Her conversation was more pleasant than her smile, I was so used to superficial women that they only talked about fashion, shopping, luxuries, but she was different. We talked about literature, football, our aspirations in life. I have to be honest she seemed smarter than me in all aspects. She did love her career, medicine, she was passionate about saving lives. She worked in that cafeteria to pay for her career.

Our next appointment was a romantic dinner in the World Trade Center panoramic restaurant, to celebrate a month of meeting us. On that occasion the lights of Mexico City at our feet contributed to begin to feel

attracted to her too much. After two bottles of red wine, the talk focused on talking about my concerns about digital technology. "

" It was the living image of Albert Einstein. His white hair was crazy and a mustache even longer than the German scientist. He showed me every one of his secrets and his discoveries, he seemed like an out of series, one of those geniuses who give themselves little in the world.

⎯ If you like you can come tomorrow and I will show you something that will revolutionize the world, I only ask you for confidentiality.

That offer to know something before anyone else in the world was too tempting, so I agreed to return. Although on the way back to the hotel I remembered that I had a tour of the city that last day. I had to decide between that pleasant tour with my teammates and others from other Latin American universities who also visited Microsoft, and something that caught my attention but was not even an area that I liked. So the decision was made. "