what was this story called?
Yep, that’s it.
I was really into the writings of Issac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut and Robert Sheckley when I was a teen. I found their collections of short stories captivating and the possibilities of alternate reality they presented were very enticing to me.
Reading those books really helped shape my perspective on reality and how to see things in a different way. Perhaps that is how I have been able to create new technologies and get multiple patents for novel inventions.
Things aren’t always what they might seem to be on the surface…and invention isn’t constrained by what already exists.
It’s in my signature.