Dr. John Reizer
Not all that long ago, my mind began wandering to a place it sometimes goes, thinking about language differences in our realm and the inability of so many of us to communicate or understand one another properly.
Have you ever been to a foreign country and tried to communicate with someone who speaks a language you don’t know? It’s a frustrating experience, for sure.
I started thinking about that scenario and then began playing around with one of my all-time favorite science fiction characters, Clyde Daniel, whom I created back in 2019.
I thought to myself, what would Clyde Daniel have done to counteract this common problem?
Clyde answered me; he called out, “BROWERNUS!”
“BROWERNUS,” I said, repeating the strange word slowly to my protagonist.
“Yes, BROWERNUS,” he said the strange-sounding word again before going on to explain himself more thoroughly.
Truth be told, Clyde Daniel was a damn genius. I had always thought his WAND creation, which cures cancer without drugs, surgery, or radiation, using instead wave-altering nanoparticle-disruption technology, was incredibly brilliant. But as amazing as WAND was, it paled in comparison to the ingenuity of his other invention, BROWERNUS, in my opinion.
The first time anyone heard the name BROWERNUS, they undoubtedly thought it was a bad joke. But it wasn’t!
Clyde told me about the first time he discussed his brainchild with his friend and longtime colleague, Donna Sawyer. He’d called her in the early morning hours, and she wasn’t thrilled about the idea initially, to say the least.
“Donna, wait, don’t hang up. Just hear me out,” he had said into the cell phone.
“Clyde, it’s 2 in the morning,” Donna replied groggy and still half asleep. “You only call people at 2 in the morning when someone’s bleeding; or in your case, when you think of an idea that’s going to get us both killed by an assassin.”
Clyde hesitated briefly before responding. “Okay, wow, that’s both unfair and somewhat accurate. But listen, what if language barriers never had to be a concern for anyone again?”
“I swear, Clyde, if this idea starts with ‘quantum’ or ‘non-invasive,’ I’m hanging up and blocking your number!”
“Think about it, Donna, no more misunderstandings about important things because of language differences. I’ve got it all worked out in my head. With the right neural transmissions, it can work just like Google Translate. It would be small, surgically implanted, and painless.”
Donna scoffed. “Nope. No way! Absolutely not! Do you want to go through Reno all over again? Do you remember what happened 3 years ago? Do you know how many government and secret intelligence agencies you’d piss off with something like this?”
Clyde frowned. “I remember surviving. And I remember why we didn’t stop! Today, the WANDs are saving millions of lives and countless dollars.”
“The WAND is great! But for me, it was the endgame,” Donna explained. “The world’s a healthier place now, but I don’t want to get on anyone’s target list again! Especially the government’s.”
“Come on, Donna, this can work!” Clyde insisted.
“Clyde, why can’t you enjoy what we accomplished?”
“Or how about we get braver than our fear,” he shot back.
“Clyde, Big Government doesn’t fool around. There’s a reason that so many different languages exist in the world. Do you think that’s by accident? Do you? They don’t want people communicating and all on the same page. It’s how they keep the masses divided and conquered!”
“Then we’ll be smart about this and plan accordingly; keep it under wraps until we’re ready!” he rationalized with her.
“God, I hate it when you always sound so damn right,” Donna replied.
Clyde developed BROWERNUS technology in partnership with Donna and a Russian neurosurgeon. The three had invested significant time and personal resources in mapping the brain’s linguistic pathways. Their focus wasn’t really on artificial intelligence but rather on integrating AI into human neurology.
BROWERNUS was an ultra-small neural connectivity network, smaller than a grain of salt. Once inserted into the human brain’s neural tissues, it changed everything.
Clyde knew the human brain processed language primarily through three key regions: Broca’s area, responsible for speech production; Wernicke’s area, responsible for comprehension; and the angular gyrus, which was crucial for reading, writing, and integrating visual language patterns.
For as long as modern humans have lived on Earth, mastering a language has required years of repetition and error. The brain had to slowly create pathways between these neural regions.
BROWERNUS did not replace those requirements; it simply synchronized them.
The BROWERNUS implant procedure was an outpatient service that required a neurosurgeon’s skilled hands for 47 minutes.
Clyde’s tiny implant connected microscopic threads into Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area, and the angular gyrus. Once activated, the device didn’t “download” language into the brain; instead, it acted as a hyper-accelerator of pattern recognition.
When an implant recipient looked at the text of any variation, the visual cortex transmitted symbols as usual, but BROWERNUS intercepted the signals and ran them through an onboard AI module pre-trained on recognizing every language ever digitized.
In less than a few seconds, it assessed and considered grammar, identified semantic structures, mapped contextual nuance, and fed a fully structured interpretation directly into a synchronized language network. The recipient of the technology no longer had to translate any new languages; they understood them completely.
Talk about having a Google Translator attached to your brain; that’s what Clyde Daniel and Donna Sawyer had brought to fruition, and this thing was about to break down the language barriers that had been in place forever and precluded so many groups of people from understanding one another.
Was this invention a good or bad thing, and did those running the world truly want everyone to understand one another without language barriers getting in the way?
More importantly, would BROWERNUS, like the WAND, place my protagonist, Clyde, back on another Target List?
Additionally, is this the next logical novel for me to write, the sequel to the first story?
What do you think?
Author’s Note!
I created the word “BROWERNUS” by combining the three regions of the human brain responsible for processing and understanding language: Broca’s area, Wernicke’s area, and the Angular Gyrus.
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