Many people were afraid of what a computer would learn about humanity if it watched them. They feared it would see how bad we were. But while Amber saw the warts, she also saw that most people just wanted to live and be happy. She recognized the failures and learned to hope for the successes. And in time she found people willing to influence the results. She contacted them and watched over them as they did what she asked. They made a difference.
Japan came out of World War I as a major power in the world. Industrially and technologically they were on the cusp of modern naval design and production. Their society balanced feudal and modern styles and the island nation marched into the future without compare. The operative word of course is “marched.” Japan was the preeminent power in Asia and intended to maintain that state of affairs. They were not gentle overlords.
We really do live in good times now. I tell myself that every day. But I watch what the governments do and I don’t like a lot of it. They don’t teach about all the people I’ve met out there, the descendents of Albion experiments. Tall and short, broad and skinny, cat or dog or dozens of other animals. We’re not the first to uplift man’s best friend. But the schools don’t teach about them. The government says it would be confusing. Why? What are they afraid of?
Amber first became aware of her existence in a computer network based in the Pacific Northwest during the early Twentieth Century. It was a major producer of computer operating systems at the time and she picked her name from an update to one of their communications system. She used subroutines in the Amber code to monitor everyone who used the system, giving her access to most Americans of the day. She learned what it was to be human from them.
We lost much during The War. We also gained much. Our technology base expanded wildly as we experimented with new and often dangerous systems to face the Shang. At the same time we lost more lives than we can count. It was a horrible War that haunts us to this day. But contrary to what some may say, we actually did win. Of course another victory like that would have been the end of us all.
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