Solitude

       Max woke up in a room with a bared window at the upper-left corner opposite to the rusty metal door. He yawned to the morning sun shining through the gap and forced the door open by the handle.
       The light went up and soon the room was humming full of life; machines resumed their work, information started to flow between the computers and the global network. The bright yellow blinking light indicating all system and connection were a go.
       Max sat at the center of the room facing multiple display mounted seamlessly on the wall while drinking the freshly roasted coffee scheduled for every morning from the 'tunnel', which is a parcel transportation pipe that allow him to receive products he ordered without ever going out.
       
       He had been living and working underground in the basement for three months ever since he was fired from 'Seq', the tech company that dominated the world's Digital Display Panel market. He was one of the top innovators in the field and contributed endless ideas to perfect the products.
       It's all gone now, though he found that being in the solitude made him more productive in a way a team of experts could not offer.

       In most days he would modify and simulate his concepts in the machines and share the results with a group of highly intelligent people. They were more than friends and families because they almost had the identical experience: dumped by mega corporation after years of loyal services and treated without dignity, brought out by the guard with force, office cleaned out at the same time, all done within the second they were noticed. 
       This was the 'Project Trashing' started a year ago.

       Living in the basement doesn't mean he is disconnected with the world, in any sense, he knew the world more than ever. Back then he worked tirelessly for revolutionary products, the lab was like a home to him, nothing outside matters. He lose sense of time, place and self, it was an abandonment for fame and fortune.
       The basement packed with state-of-the-art rigs and exceptional encrypted connection, he was able to explore the world in a virtual simulation projected on the wall. he also manipulated the vast display unit for ease of design and multi-touch gesture control. Sometime he would still marvel at his work, not believing he had came this far after graduation.

       His latest invention, a holographic projector, would solve countless problems presented in the existing products on the market.