• What if life as we know it was documented on pages? Would it read like a novel with you as the protagonist? Perhaps written in third person so your thoughts were recorded along side your actions. The people around you would also be recorded on you pages as they interacted with you, their thoughts and actions inscribed with yours. Would you find yourself perusing through the many pages, glancing at the various sub headings. Would you seek out the people you know, to find what they thought of you? You could even go as far as to be paranoid to think that these people you are reading are reading you as well, perhaps even reading you reading of them and the thoughts that come to your mind. Could you find the time to read everyone’s pages? Would you even mark a page or two, just to look over if that situation should happen to you?

    In the future would this document enable a window into the past as many novels do? Would we try to think a certain way to shape peoples ideas of us? How could we judge someone? Traditionally, it would be recorded, that people met as strangers and encouraged bits and pieces of conversation and gestures. From there relationships and trust was built, but sometimes this truthful belief was misplaced. With these pages of your life, this mystery person could easily be identified by first reading of you meeting with them and using that, track down their pages. Would you be inclined to trust your judgement or plough ahead to read of their various deeds and plans?

    Would this document be revered in the present? With enemies being able to read the others thoughts and actions would the document abolish wars to bring about peace? Or would they still go ahead out of stubbornness and pride? Or instead of paying for weapons and wars, would they spend it on trying to establish ‘secrets’? These secrets would strive to conceal something from the document, enabling people to take up arms against another without them first reading of it in the document. Could it be done? Would countries strive to have a secret or to demolish the document and the secrets it publishes. Perhaps the secret would strive not stop the document but to have it mislead, to print false truths.

    Would people strive to be truthful? Could they? From a small white lie to a scandal, all could be found in the document. Would something like this encourage people? Would more families split and stigmatised by the community for things never spoken of but were published in the document. There would be no more speculating if someone did sleep with the whole football team. Would bullying be worse? If other students were told the best gossip happened to be on your pages, would you feel ashamed of your past actions? Would you cry apparently alone, knowing the people who made you feel this way could read about it?

    Would the police force employ people whose sole job was to read the document, to report a person’s intention to disobey the law? Would there be a limit to this? Would you be persecuted for j-walking? Could you get away with murder? Once, it may read, people were persecuted over evidence, a confession and possibly a court case. Although thankfully today, people judging a murderer just have to flip through his pages to read of his actions and thoughts. If the police were able to read everyone’s thoughts through the document, could they then be persecuted for not stopping a premeditated murder? Would someone have to step forward and take the blame?

    What language would the document be written in? Could it be English or Japanese? Would it matter? Perhaps it was written in French, if you wanted to read it enough you would translate it. Would companies charge to have a streaming translation of the document? Could something as revered as the document be used to facilitate a select few in their cash income? As people found out about this, would they continue to pay for it? Perhaps it could be in English, would it become a standardised language through out the world?
    Today many people read fan magazines and tabloids for the latest gossip on their favourite actors and musicians. If the document offered their true thoughts and actions would they be safe? What if someone used this information to better themselves or fuel their obsession, would anyone be safe? Could certain pages be worth more? Would it be possible for the makers of the document to charge people to ensure their pages remain hidden? Would the document cease to be classed less as a freedom of information idea and more as an exploitation of the world charade?

    Does the document signify the end of privacy? Would words now hold the advantage above actions, now that anyone can read your subconscious motivation? Do we as human beings need apart of ourselves that isn't for the world to see?