The warm sunny day in the city of heat, she was well-dressed and waiting for him in the food court, where they regularly meet. The sun’s heat and dry breeze, added warmth to her feelings. She got a message from him, “I’m coming there in 5 minutes D”. A glimpse of smile appeared on her face and when she looked at the entrance, he was standing there in his usual uncared hair and untrendy T-shirt and pants, waiting to see her reaction.
She was not surprised as it was not the first time he did it, but still she was happy that he liked to surprise her. As there was not much of a reaction from her, he walked towards her feeling that his efforts went in vain. He came with an embarrassed smile and sat on the chair adjacent to her. He liked to be as close to her as possible rather than sitting opposite and watching her face all day long.
“So, what’s special today? Any gift for me”, he asked and tried a romantic look at her. She started laughing at him seeing the funny expression on his face. She tried hard to control her laughter, paused it and asked him, “What is that D” and resumed her laughter. He was surprised by that question and started thinking for a while. Before he could understand it, she opened the messages and showed him the message he sent earlier. It said, “I’m coming there in 5 minutes D”. She read it out loud and stressed on the “D” and said, “this D”. “Oh! That D”, he paused for a minute to recollect his theory and build it and said, “I use GBoard from Google, where there is an option to swipe the word instead of pressing the keys discretely and since S and D are close in QWERTY keyboard, the extra D appeared”.
The tea arrived. It took a few minutes for her align the words that he had told and find a meaning out of it. She always wondered how he could be so romantic and too robotic at the same time. Most of his replies seemed like she was speaking with an AI. When she was thinking over the blended character of his, he sipped at his tea and went to a deep thought. Before she came back to her wits, he yelled, “Yes, he would have been a genius”.
She was surprised to hear it this time. More than surprise, curiosity took over her senses and she asked, “the who”. He came back to his wits, processed her question, and recollected his current theory and tried to make a meaningful sentence out of it. He felt that she might need to know a preliminary information to understand his theories. So he asked her, “Do you know Christopher Sholes”. She opened Google app on her phone and typed the name. She got to know whom he was and before she turned towards him, he continued to talk, “He placed U and I closer. Do you observe it in your keyboad”. She confirmed that in her keyboard and blushed at him for how he could make romantic statements out of all the knowledge he had.
“Yes, so romantic he would have been”, she replied. He was surprised by this reply and tried to make sense out of her words. He understood what she was trying to say and replied, “Ya, that’s another thing, but UI means User Interface. He might have thought about concentrating more on user interface and purposely placed the keys together”. He stopped, and waited for her response. As her face dulled out, he kept the tea cup on the table suddenly and continued, “wait a minute. Look at the coincidence. UI is between a machine and a human. That is nothing but and connection between U and I, me to be appropriate. There’s a connection between every point to every other point in the world. May be these are imaginary, but still the connections and patterns are easily observable. Look how beautiful chaos theory is”. She dulled out completely and started wondering what made her fall for such an information machine.
