Personalized medicine, brain-machine interfaces, advanced biotechnology, quantum computing...
"...blah, blah," Blake muttered under his breath, scrolling past yet another article filled with difficult words.
None of it stuck.
Or rather, none of it felt like something he could actually use.
It wasn't that the topics weren't impressive, they were. If anything, that was the problem. Every single one of them required a level of understanding he simply didn't have. Years of study, experience and context.
Things he couldn't just fake overnight.
"…What am I even supposed to do with this? Creativity my ass," he mumbled, rubbing his eyes as the screen's brightness decreased.
He clicked on another link anyway.
And then another.
And another.
Hours passed like that.
Each time, it was the same cycle: read a bit, understand half of it at best, then realize there was no way he could turn it into something original or understandable.
