It is Year 2050, while we are at an advanced state of colonizing Mars and conquering universe once more. First time after the extinction of ancient civilizations which left various shastras for our scrutiny as technology texts, made the earthians dream bigger forever. We have continued to milk every drop of energy sources in planet Earth and had reached a time when we had to sadly accept other planets as home. As usual the average citizen was racing with rats, while our sun continued to glow with vengeance seeing what humans did in spite of all his hard work to keep the perfect living conditions in Earth.
As much as a cliche it would sound but somewhere in Japan, Mio Hana had dreamed of starting her own power company seeing the potential we humans had to harvest and harness the green energy. Mio's vision materialized in the form of RunSys, the very same year when man had planted the first paddy field in Mars after paying a fortune to start a new life. The only aide of RunSys was sun himself and at RunSys, Mio and her team, which she calls family proudly, dreamed of ways of using Sun to the benefit of people on Earth. RunSys seemed to be obsessed with solar energy, maybe as a result of the bright shiny world they were witnessing in the ozone depleted sky of theirs.
The breakthrough came days before Mio's mom was chartered to move to Mars in the forthcoming flight to witness the celestial journey which was probably the last chance for the millennials to be sky bound as the new world was not expecting old wisdom to add any value to the AI assisted brain cell mounted cerebrum of the newer generations. RunSys invented the solar panel which was as big as what an iPhone would have looked in 2025 with the ability to store enough wattage to charge that old iPhone ten times over with 20 times the charging speed of the latest AI brain cell. Yami, the new solar cell could sit on the pockets of its users and was welcomed on the Yami Stations across Japan.
RunSys installed their portable power stations to every train station. Interestingly Mio had envisioned every living being who were left back in the planet Earth would be her customers. She had handed over free iPhone shaped solar charging panels (Yami) to every citizen in her city. A normal day would start at 12Noon, as people were busy living their night life inside their AI brains within the fantasy metaverse they had created all while sitting on their couch. There was no urgency to work as most governments had turned welfare states with its citizens often lacking the zeal which came as a by-product of the circadian rhythm. The welfare states however limited the people who ended up using all their citizen credits on the 30G network which was required to make the AI brain cells work the way they promised. This AI brain cells were the new drug in fashion which showed no limits of imagination and could very well make a person live and die within the fantasy world they created. As in any socialist state, its people had started to lack motivation due to the sheer lack of rewards that could drive them.
Mio seemed to have a plan for everything, her idea of charging back the citizen's account with the required credits based on the power deposited as and when they connect their Yami in those large Yami Stations was a new revolution of its own which Japan never envisioned. Mio had started to turn into a new hero in all the metaverses that were equally popular and populated in both Mars and Earth alike. Avatars with Mio's bulbous nose was trending and everyone seemed to have started to believe that Mio wore a cape. The revolution was not because of just Yami but the meticulous way of connecting it to people's purse and making them less dependent on the pension and welfare. The adoption of Yami was slow in the beginning but it picked up pace when many young girls who seems to be Mio's followers started to wake up early to collect more sun in their Yami. The journey to Yami stations became the new mass commute problem for states to solve by arranging more human pick-up drones from various pick-up points to be dropped at Yami stations. Mio and RunSys didn't stop here, they went ahead and created the Yami Coin which could be traded on the newly formed Hana exchange.
The greed of another Bitcoin in Yami Coin made the crowd wake up before sun and be ready to get multiple charging cycles enabling them to collect more Yami Coins in return. The Yami Coin became the De facto currency in Japan which stood tall among all other cryptocurrencies and once popular Yen. This revolution put the circadian rhythm, dreaming big and motivation to fashion once again. People started seeing light in the end of the earth tunnel and the desires to stay back in Earth increased with many consciously missing out on their completely paid out interplanetary trips.
As always, every country started mimicking the success of Mio, they developed their own cheap copies of Yami and some smart countries decided to welcome RunSys and allowed them to change their worlds. Mio had understood that it was time for her to look for the next challenge, to create the technology to become the balance that cools the earth enough to overcome the global warming in ways it never imagined.
Long story short Mio Hana realized that she had found her ikigai, and it was to save this planet earth in her own ways to make the beautiful Sakura blossom every March forever and let other Mio's to come - Dream!
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Good fiction blending in future state with current patterns that threaten the mankind .
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