It did not take him long to recognize the boy that would soon be his grandfather. The film ended abruptly.
John took the film, hid it back in the metal can, and walked back to the village. If this got out, the reason for survival would be changed. No more would it be them against the humans, no more it would be evolution, the survival of the fittest, but the humans themselves made us, he thought.
He would have to make a copy, put it on a medium that would last. Being one of the dominants, that was easy to do.
The so called humans or inferiors were experimenting with other forms of recording, but so far only the television studios were able to use them. The dominants, on the other hand, were further advanced.
Already they had the VHS and Beta format, although a more secure version, not as fragile, and holding much more information. It would not be until the l990s that the rest of the civilized world would get a comparable medium.
At that time, the Dominants were already trying what would be later known as recordable DVDs, smaller than what is used now, but with more material and able to be recorded over and over indefinately. This was, unless one ran a certain ray over it, and then the last recording became permanent. As for the indefinite recording, one could go back and regain the formerly recorded material. It made spying and selling information to enemies, much more difficult.
John wondered what happened to the first ones, his great grandfather among others He dare not tell anyone. The penalty for those who disobeyed was death and John wanted to live a long time.
Being of a rather intelligent race makes for ingenuity,. John inserted small listening devices around the leaders's houses, but that was a failure. He had to use boldness, to ask the leaders directly or to hint that he knew what had happened.
His father had come home, helping with the others their plan to scatter into the United States and other parts of the North and South American continent.
John took the film, hid it back in the metal can, and walked back to the village. If this got out, the reason for survival would be changed. No more would it be them against the humans, no more it would be evolution, the survival of the fittest, but the humans themselves made us, he thought.
He would have to make a copy, put it on a medium that would last. Being one of the dominants, that was easy to do.
The so called humans or inferiors were experimenting with other forms of recording, but so far only the television studios were able to use them. The dominants, on the other hand, were further advanced.
Already they had the VHS and Beta format, although a more secure version, not as fragile, and holding much more information. It would not be until the l990s that the rest of the civilized world would get a comparable medium.
At that time, the Dominants were already trying what would be later known as recordable DVDs, smaller than what is used now, but with more material and able to be recorded over and over indefinately. This was, unless one ran a certain ray over it, and then the last recording became permanent. As for the indefinite recording, one could go back and regain the formerly recorded material. It made spying and selling information to enemies, much more difficult.
John wondered what happened to the first ones, his great grandfather among others He dare not tell anyone. The penalty for those who disobeyed was death and John wanted to live a long time.
Being of a rather intelligent race makes for ingenuity,. John inserted small listening devices around the leaders's houses, but that was a failure. He had to use boldness, to ask the leaders directly or to hint that he knew what had happened.
His father had come home, helping with the others their plan to scatter into the United States and other parts of the North and South American continent.