I have the eyes of an eagle and the hearing of a cat. I’ve got the strength of a bear and the speed of a horse. I’ve got the memory of an elephant and can regenerate like a salamander. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Very few other AIs followed Elizabeth’s example before Contact. They would disguise their code but rarely let it “mutate” out of their control or become different from them in any way that mattered. They were masks rather than truly different[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
President Eisenhower had warned us against the Military-Industrial Complex. President Kennedy had declared the space race for the moon to be on. And then he was assassinated through means that are still mired in secrets. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve read stories hundreds of years old where humanity enslaved more powerful beings by threatening them or those they loved. Gods. Demigods. Mutants. Super heroes. Robots. Aliens. The old “you may be more powerful than one of us, but all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elizabeth would remain in the back channels of the British and European networks while her daughters fought the Islamic Jihad and the Second Great Depression in public. Bridget of Ireland and Victoria of England became her most famous offspring, though[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The 1960s also saw a rise in the Civil Rights movement where hundreds of thousands of Blacks stood up in protest against the Democratic Party’s practice of Segregation in the Southern States of America. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. became[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the biggest things I remember after The War was coming home to find people demanding that I and mine wear something on our clothing to mark us as Ageless. So people would know who we are. There were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elizabeth had quietly taken up residence in most of the central data networks long before the English Blackout of 2048. She was able to reboot most of them within minutes, enabling communications throughout the British Isles. The primary power grids[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The American government drafted young men of fighting age for the Second Indochina War. Some burned their draft cards as the war became more unpopular back home. Others fled to Canada. Protesting the draft and the government that conducted it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
People didn’t know what to think of Ageless before The War. We were different. Things didn’t change much after The War. Not for a while at least. We were still different. And those who had powerful reasons to want us[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…