"Rajnar Vajra - Viewschool" - читать интересную книгу автора (Vajra Rajnar)

"Can everyone see me now?тАЭ I asked, observing the real faces closely.

Q-Ball grunted, Madeline blinked, Buddha giggled hyena-style, Cher rolled her eyes, Kekipi waved a
forked tongue at me, and White Night said тАЬsure,тАЭ accepting the Wally Cox proxy with only a few
tremors, low on the Richter scale.

"Most of you,тАЭ I said, тАЬah, bypassed Junior High so we've miles of ground to cover this semester. Our
subjects are science, math, history, English literature, and we're going to pick out a foreign language to
work on. Several of you already know much of the material, but I don't think you'll get bored. Turns out
that ViewNet has advantages that no normal school can match."

"Such as?тАЭ Cher broke in, squeezing two tons of doubt into two words.

I smiled before remembering that the expression would only come across as a bizarre distortion in the
proxy she was seeing. тАЬPatience. Here's how class is going to work. Every school day, we'll work on
three of our five subjects, dropping one the next day and adding a new one. That way, we'll keep our
topics in constant rotation, but cover each subject three times a week."

White Night raised a hand and I pointed to him and said, тАЬGo."
"I want to know about those advantages, too."

"I'm planning on showing you. For science, we'll be studying basic physics, paleontology, astronomy, and
if we cover enough material, some marine biology.тАЭ I glanced at my OSP. If anyone felt the least interest
in the fields I'd mentioned, they were hiding it. I chuckled to myself. тАЬAll right. Let's see what ViewNet
offers us in paleontology, for example. I wouldn't lean too far back in your chairs right about now."

I pressed function тАЬoneтАЭ on my pad, then confirmed with тАЬenter.тАЭ The classroom faded out, leaving us in
the midst of a foggy swamp, the chairs and desks resting impossibly on the wet surface.

Kekipi half stood then slowly eased into his seat as if trying to cover for losing his cool. White Night's
helmet was whipping around as if something might be about to pounce on him. Here, his behavior
seemed sensible.

"Welcome to the Cretaceous,тАЭ I announced. тАЬAnyone care to see some dinosaurs up close and
personal?"

"No!тАЭ White Night blurted.

"Well, you're in luck. That thing coming up from behind you is no dinosaur.тАЭ I opened White Night's
private channel. тАЬDon't worry, Daniel. Remember that this is just an illusion. If it gets too intense, give me
a wink and I'll reduce the image-strength for you."

"You can see my real face?"

Bright boy. тАЬMore or less. We don't have a camera spying on you, but Enhancement has a recent model
of your face and several thousands of the implants you took in with your milkshake allow ViewNet to
constantly update your expression in a special display I can watch."

"Wow. Guess I shouldn't go picking my nose."