[ WP ] Knowledge is power . Specifically , knowledge can be freely converted to electrical power .

When they called me and said they were recruiting humanity's best and brightest, I did n't think they were being literal, but here we are. 
 
 Locked in a box, next to thousands of other boxes, with nothing but books. Sometimes they change the books. Sometimes they leave them for months. Sometimes they take a book from us immediately. The first book was a short manual written by one of the people who `` recruited'' me. 
 
 It detailed a meditative process to turn memories into electrical energy. This energy is siphoned from our bodies via electrodes that keep us chained to the walls. With nothing else to do, we read, and the knowledge is quickly converted to power, on pain of... well, let's just say they cleaned up my next-box-neighbour's cell pretty quickly when he refused. 
 
 The way it was explained to me is that since all brain activity is technically electrical signals... why ca n't we generate our own? Focus intensely on the knowledge, and as you remember it your brain works harder. Then you take the knowledge, in its electrical signal form, and you... dismiss it. And once it goes, so do the memories. Every time is the first time. 
 
 They let us use up whatever memories we like - many of us pump out the memory of the horrors we've seen here. They moan at night, like zombies, like ghouls, unholy and not whole, weeping for that which they have lost. 
 
 Others rebelled by wiping the knowledge of how to convert the knowledge in the first place, a protest against the inhumane conditions of this human battery cell. Those are the ones they clean up after. 
 
 As for myself, I do n't do either. I read the books they give me, I pump them out as power. They did n't specify what they needed my brain for, but the money they offered was too much for a college student like me to ignore. I bide my time, waiting for just the right book to come along. A clue to help me out of here. Until then, all I can do is what they ask me, and hope they're not trying to use us to power some kind of death ray. 
 
 At least the books never get boring.
