The Amazing Bird Boy

[The feed turns on-- and then back off again after just a blip. And then on for a couple of seconds longer... then off. Then finally, it's on and stays on. Showing the face of a young man with disheveled pigtails, too close to the camera at first and then way too far away as he puts it down on a table that's just a foot too far from where he's sitting in his livingroom.

The room is.. a mess. Pieces of metal and electronics just strewn about around him. The looks of something being made in the corner, but the blob has no real shape and it's only obvious that it's made of said metal and electronic parts. And the young inventor stares right down into the lens with an intense look to his expression, before he speaks.]

My name is Appare, and I'm originally from Japan. It's the year 1901, and electricity has only just been invented. I had just finished making a steam-gas hybrid car, and I was going to make an air plane next. But then I woke up here.

[He starts off direct, and to the point.]

I'm here to ask if anyone else is as overwhelmed by the technology in this place as I am. Did you get used to it? I've figured out how to use this device here, [pointing at the camera] and I've taken apart almost everything around me. But that's as far as I've gotten.

[Appare is sure he would eventually be used to everything, but it might be nice to hear the experience from others who were from less advanced worlds.]

I want to know everything about how this new future works, but I don't know where to start.