GI Jane 4.0 chose to defend America during the Cybernetic Wars. Or more accurately, she chose to defend individuals who were American. That ended up making her American in a way that most AIs never managed. You see most of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for June, 2018
Seven years ago on this date, I decided to begin posting something Jack of Harts every day. Seven years later, there is a post for every day on Jack of Harts. Some of them are stories. Some of them are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Rogue AIs who formed the Singapore Collective wanted to make us kill each other. They had a grand vision of inflaming tensions between the major nuclear nations until we obliterated each other in nuclear fire. Indonesia was supposed to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I remember walking down cherry blossom streets in Los Angeles. I remember the sun glistening off the waters below the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. I remember the twin towers of light in Old New York City. Yeah. People from the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
GI Jane 4.0 did not start out as one of our fiercest and most loyal defenders. The United States Army wanted her to defend us, but her predecessors were dead or dying at our hands. Her new code was incomplete,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I watched Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom this weekend. I liked it. One of the things that hit me is that the trailers did not tell me what the story was going to be. I thought it was going to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Indonesia. The last great battleground. China was still in their expansionist stage back then. They wished to conquer Australia, as they had so many other nations in the previous years. They started by sending roving AIs ahead of their troops[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grew up walking in the grass and sitting in the sand. I felt the wind on my face and the rain in my hair, smelled the musk of soaked skin under moonlit nights. I didn’t like the big cities[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some people ask how a glorified digital cheerleader could have held GI Jane 4.0, the best of the Jane combat advisor AIs created by the United Stars Armed Forces, in check. The answer is simple. Jane simply did not wish[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Odessa. Kansas City. Detroit. Los Angeles. London. Johannesburg. Warsaw. Rogue AIs hit everybody during the Cybernetic Wars. We rarely talk about Beijing and Moscow in our parts of the world, but we know those and other cybernetic battles raged in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…