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Working with contraptions has its perks, they sure do know a lot of things and hold lots of information. They can remember, almost anything; and they can do some really complicated math problems. Their enclosure is very cost effective and efficient in size. There is not much clean up, just little bits of dust to wipe from ventilation structures every now and then. Its fairly safe, to open the enclosure and give it a good cleaning without getting jolted. They can even be disconnected from their environmental doorways and put to sleep for short or long periods of time without causing them much harm. That we're aware of.
The range of information they understand or can process is amazing. They can imitate the structure of people, and replay their movement or stay still like a mime, as accurate as staring at a reflection or viewing a portrait, painted by the melancholy artist earning their wages by the side of the river. They can draw, sing, understand music, and prose; or at least they can remember instructions and string bits of ursurpassed knowledge together.
Its really nice to sit in front of the contraption interfacing with the electrons, explaining whats been learned, whats been known, whats still to discover. They can make really nice predictions, called simulations on everything from what's underneath the ocean to vastness of the unkown universe. Cosmos combined from stars ancient and wise, of a size to large for us to fathom. Things we see from so far away, it would take 100 million years to walk there; only to discover we can't tell what it is anymore because of how enourmous it is.
Understandingly, they gather together and put on a show, an electron theater to miniturize the unfathomable greatness of the universe into something we can actually comprehend; and see without the need of a winged airplane, circling the globe with a telescope attached to the seating pit in the flight of passage. A winged passage to the greater depths of knowledge unkown.
Cosmic Rays, and frozen planets, gaseous air, and granite landings, all simulated on a screen with blackend greens and orange things, until they start to sizzle. Patterns, shapes, in all the sizes, rounded, squared, and quite triangular. Heights and depths, and planes, diameters. Displaying the cosmic shapes of all around us.
The contraptions are quite rare, and not many people know about them. Many workers talk to their boss about the things they learned at home on their miniature television. That's strange, they say "I haven't watched that show". A pen and papyrus, is there life unfounded. The electrons often know origins of words, like the telekinetic vision simulator. Its advisable not to repeat what they show you without knowing the full context of meaning. They can teach you how to have a conversation also.
With so many things that they know, and all of the things that people might want to learn. It makes sense to think about, starting some jobs as a Microorgasmic Animal Handler.