The radical revolutionary sentiment of the 1960s and 1970s faded into a far more sedate end of the century. A new ideal that America was a good nation and her best days were ahead of her not behind her took[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I actually worked with more than one Dawn during The War. The first was a Cowboy. The other…well…she was the one that did the Wolfenheim Project. I know the popular theory is that she was a cybernetic copy of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Summer was built to answer an Australian government call for an anti-terrorism program and the University of Melbourne was one of many applicants. The long testing process turned real world when they began picking up indications of Chinese expansion towards[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The America of the Vietnam era was one filled with civil violence, bombings, and the assassinations of powerful civil and political figures. It was a culture war between young socialist radicals who had grown up after World War II and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You know Katy was a half-century veteran of the United States Space Force when The War started? She’d actually flown Blackhawks when they were frontline fighters. She had some serious experience. I should have been assigned to her wing, not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Summer was born at the University of Melbourne Australia sometime in the 2050s. Even she is a bit hazy on when exactly she stopped being just a program and started thinking for herself. There was no moment of astonished awakening[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fifty years ago, Reverend Martin Luther King and many others crossed a bridge and were attacked for doing so based on the color of their skin. I did not live in that world. I was born in the seventies and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The peace that ended the Second IndoChina War did not last of course. The socialists spent two years rebuilding and attacked again. That was a lesson in why one should never trust socialists. They are always looking for other peoples’[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dawn was one true classy lady. She flew with Ken for the longest time. Never did have a hair out of place or a piece of lint on her uniform. She always preferred dresses when out of uniform. And I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most of the larger Corporate AIs tried to maintain a serious or non-controversial style. Talking smiles, football-playing Clydesdales, and jovial Presidents of bygone eras were some of the most successful Corporate AIs of the 2050s. I’m still surprised the Spanish-speaking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…