RyansWorld: Muhammad Li
From Future
Dr. Muhammad Li is not to be confused with President Muhammad Li of the Russian Federation as mentioned in the article about Russia in the year 2017.
Dr. Muhammad Li (b. July 2, 1997 in Hong Kong, China - d. 2046 near Talladega, Alabama, Canadamerica) was the European scientist who discovered the fact that television was a harmful drug like alcohol and cannabis. His theories would eventually create a worldwide television ban in the year 2040. By the time that television would be banned, 40% of the world would be functionally illiterate thanks to television (despite switching to a student-led learning model to make learning more interesting like television was). After combining the criminalization of television with the Singularity, the average IQ would increase by 150% nearly overnight and functional illiteracy would finally be reduced to 0.5% worldwide by the year 2105. Fitness clubs would see a rise in enrollment and work places would see reduced absenteeism thanks to the television becoming illegal. Muhammad Li would eventually be murdered by a rabid former television fan somewhere in the former United States while on vacation. While talking to police, the killer would identify himself as "Ricky Bobby's grandson;" that killer would hang himself in prison 72 hours later.
Without television, the fast food companies went out of business and the average woman's size went down from a size 14 to a size 6 by the end of the 21st century. As recently as the year 2007, people were complaining about television's role in causing the global obesity epidemic. Even though most elderly people didn't agree with television's role in causing obesity, it was the lack of exercise followed by the massive amount of beef consumed that would almost destroy human fertility. An increasing amount of people would turn to either a vegetarian or a vegan diet in order to restore their good health, fight cancer, and regain their fertility. People would abandon fast food almost shortly after television was criminalized worldwide. The layoffs caused by people not eating fast food anymore results in a brief but severe recession in the food industry. Satellite television was the worst because radiation from the satellite beams had the ability to silently kill passing birds and bees.
Muhammad Li would become the most common full name (middle names fell out of vogue in North America by the 2030s as they were pointless and not needed in games like The Sims and The Sims 2) in the mid 21st century as more Chinese families become interwined with the families in the Middle East that would find wealth in forms other than selling crude oil and fossil fuels (including selling solar power panels and replacing the Jews as the purveyors of smut in a post-television cinema world). As of the year 2009, Muhammad is the world's most common first name while Li would become the world's most common surname. Crime bureaus of the world would eventually replace the John Doe anoymous name for male victims with Muhammad Li, causing controversy in much of the Arab and Chinese world.
