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A day without modern media

by Isabel Nieder, year 11

Once upon a time in the year 2083 a girl called Madeline woke up early in the

morning. Normally she would roll over in bed and would grab her phone. But she

looked around in her room and noticed something different.

“Where’s my TV? Where’s my phone? Where are all my technological devices?”,

she thought.

Madline was confused… she stood up and walked through the house. “Mom?

Dad?”, she screamed and walked through the hallway. Again no technical

devices… no telephone, no camera next to the entrance where you could see who

stood outside of your house on the other side of the door.

She was shocked: “Mom? Dad? We were robbed! Call the police!”

Madeline’s parents came out of the living room. “No, sweetheart, we don’t know

what has happened. Nobody in the neighbourhood has any modern devices or

things to communicate with.”, Madeline’s mom said. “What?”, Madeline

whispered, “Nothing? Nothing to communicate with? “Yes, my dear. Nobody

knows what happened”, her dad said.

“But how can I live without my smartphone? How do I communicate with all my

friends? How is it even possible to live without all the these technical devices?

It’s horrible I don’t know what to do and how to live without all this stuff…!!”,

Madeline cried.

She heard something ringing… “RRR… RRR”. “What is it?”, she asked herself. And

with that she woke up from a horrible nightmare. Madeline’s heart beat fast,

she was sweaty and scared. Quickly she rolled over, grabbed her phone and

realized that it all had just been a nightmare.

But this nightmare showed her that she was not able to live without all her

technical devices.