This is my narration of a Love, Death, Robots episode, roughly after 2 weeks of watching it. I've seen the episode many times over the years, and I enjoy the plot very much – it is a very good short story.
I'm narrating this partly as an exercise in memory<thoughts on memories of movies> but it is also a story I'd like to keep handy if I ever need to tell someone a solid story. I'll invent the plot in places I've forgotten what exactly happens.
There was a lab in America doing research on ways to combine and recombine human DNA with bacteria, in the hope that they'd be able to produce intelligent behaviour. They did many experiments over many years but they didn't have much success. One night, one of the researchers took a dish of recombined human DNA bacterial culture from one of the experiments home, <to do what>.
This researcher was particularly sleep deprived. While placing the bacteria in their fridge, they dripped some of it into a box of yoghurt that was sitting underneath. Over the course of that night, the yoghurt became sentient.
The next morning, the researcher took out the yoghurt, poured it into a bowl, mixed some cereal with it and sat down for breakfast. Before they could take a bite, the yoghurt appeared to be moving on it's own and arranged the cereal into letters that spelt: "Take us to your leaders".
By afternoon, the researcher was presenting the yoghurt to a room of 40 people, including the President of USA. The bowl spelt: "We have solved nuclear fusion". The room burst into laughter at the whole idea of this, and the President began to move to other pressing matters of the day. <The yoghurt made a gurgling noise, and it did not seem pleased.>
It, had also learnt how to produce voice by now: the gluey surface split apart into an oval, and the curd underneath moved around to displace air just like vocal cords do. It spoke one word at a time and it said: "We will give it to China". The room went silent. The President very somberly asked the bowl of yoghurt what it wanted. In response, it said: "We want Ohio".
A deal was struck, and the Yoghurt was granted a century long lease on the landmass of Ohio, in exchange for a recipe for nuclear fusion. A few months later, the leaders found themselves consulting the Yoghurt for all sorts of things. The country was facing an economic crisis it hadn't seen in over 50 years, and naturally, the President asked the Yoghurt for advice. The Yoghurt asked to be shelved away for a week, at the end of which it narrated a 300-page long plan. It warned that the plan be followed precisely, or the country would face economic ruin. Naturally, the country's economy imploded in 3 months.
I've run out of time to write the rest of the story today. This half of narration courtesy of the IndieWeb Club of Bangalore