Despite the name and the accent, Watson is not actually a British AI. He’s American believe it or not. Designed to win some game show back before the Second Great Depression, he didn’t actually think back then. He learned how[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I did not favor the advance on Epsilon Reticuli. As others, I believed we should have concentrated on more important enemies. But the politicians wanted a quick victory, images of Alliance soldiers pacifying enemy worlds they could distribute to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The world economy and the stock markets would continue to slump for years of course. It brought down governments and changed administrations. The Democrats rose back to power in America and spent the next decade conducting a slow societal revolution[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are a lot of “New” places in the Avalon system. New Scotland, New Ireland, and New England are the most heavily developed worlds, but there are dozens of other planets, moons, asteroids, and even pure space stations scattered throughout[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jane 4.0 did grow up of course. It took her a very long time to get over her anger though. She used that anger on the Pacific, Atlantic, and Mexican digital fronts to become an arbiter of death. She discovered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My family went on a buying spree in 1929, buying up stocks whose value had plummeted in the crash. It took a long time for us to turn a true profit on it, but we secured control of many businesses[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Avalon system has many stars and many planets. Most are not truly habitable as we would consider them of course, but there is a lot of real estate in that system that is happy to support human life. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
According to the other AIs who lived during the Troubled Times of the Second Great Depression and the conflicts that followed it, Jane 4.0 was a true loose cannon. She was built for war with only the most limited restrictions[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t much like Epsilon Reticuli after what happened there. But one good thing came out of it. I met Olivia Wyatt. Yes. That Olivia Wyatt. And no, it wasn’t in that way. Not that I wouldn’t have minded, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Investors rethought their involvement in the stock markets after Black Thursday. With rumors that the new tariffs would come into effect despite the warning, many chose to leave on Black Monday, dropping the New York exchange by thirteen percent. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…