President Truman’s popularity was so low after firing General MacArthur that he didn’t even run for a second election to the presidency. Eisenhower, one of the other Generals of the Army, ran and won. He would become a popular president,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for January, 2015
It takes many years for most of us to find out we’re Ageless. The Peloran treatments don’t have any visible side effects, and the more interesting aspects of being Ageless take years to manifest. It’s a very gradual process that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most of the AIs that helped form the first Terran cybernetic family were female. Young male geeks being the way they are, they mostly tried to program the perfect girlfriend. So of the fifteen AIs that greeted the Peloran, eleven[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A congressional investigation found that while President Truman had the obvious authority to relieve General MacArthur whenever he wanted to, MacArthur had never violated any orders given him. No court martial was convened and MacArthur retired. Though due to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had fun with a lot of girls in my days at college. All the colleges. I was a professional college student for over a decade. I snapped up a lot of college degrees in that time. Real degrees, not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most cybernetic families have a single leader, the mother or father from whom all the cybers are based. The first and largest of the Terran cyber families is far different. Our best AIs joined the cybernetic mind of the Guardian[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are times when we have to stand or die. There are times when nothing less will do. There are times when we have to choose what kind of person we are going to be. Will we sit down when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
General MacArthur returned to America and President Truman sent a universally despised weasel of a man to meet him. The uproar in American opinion was amazing for a pre-networked nation. Public opinion polls showed approval ratings lower than any President[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I didn’t know what to do after Julie and Alex left. I couldn’t follow them. That would be admitting I was wrong and I couldn’t do that. So I went to college. Went to a lot of colleges. I never[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first Terran cybernetic family was an experiment. The Peloran flagship’s cybernetic intelligence worked with the oldest of our AIs to create something similar to the Peloran cyber families. No single family is like the others, and of course our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…