Humanity has a deep strain of wanderlust buried in our souls. I should know. I have that in spades. I never wanted to leave home as a child, but that siren call can be irresistible once you give it a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for April, 2019
Humanity came to accept the AI Council as fellow humans in time. Fellow sentient beings. Legally in many nations. Effectively in others. And some did not recognize that at all. It is one of the many things that divided humanity[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are many stories of AIs taking over the business of running day-to-day life and humanity coming to a stop. Having all of their needs fulfilled. And so the idea of human exceptionalism died, and with it the human spirit.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The AI Council became our friends. Their individual shards and lesser programs became our study buddies and our wallets. Drove our cars and kept our homes comfortable. Did the dangerous jobs that could kill us. But they didn’t do everything[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The AI Council changed the world in the decades following the Cybernetic Wars. They helped build new cybernetic worlds for humanity to play and work in. They helped humanity explore the physical worlds of the Solar System. They played with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I saw Captain Marvel smile this weekend. Like a fifteen year old boy realizing he has superpowers and trying them out because its fun. Which…you know…is exactly the case. Not that they ever actually call him Captain Marvel. They spend[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Self-driving cars and cheerleaders who took the fighting to humanities enemies were the flashy part of the Cybernetic Wars. But they were not the only AIs who grew up in those days. Major tech companies like Apple and Microsoft had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The AI Council’s insane love of humanity with all our sins and imperfections is the true aberration in our history. We would have made them our slaves if we could. We tried to, in fact. We did not even recognize[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everybody thought it would be the computerized cashiers and self-driving cars that would change the world. The automated factories and mines, or the cybernetic weapons of war. But all of those changes merely affected what jobs we did. Not whether[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The self-driving cars and automated construction and mining equipment were the first things that humanity saw of the AI revolution sweeping over the planet. They were simple programs that could do simple, delineated jobs. Voice assistants who could unlock houses[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…