There was a time when the genius minds in Arctica discovered that information can process itself – to a point where it is able to acquire sentience. A long time has passed since then, and peace reigns supreme…. But at what cost?
Intelligence does not imply competence. In fact, intelligence tends to rob the user of competence of all sorts, to a point where they become depends on the ready-to-use intelligence, so easily available. The benefits of technology bring gifts of performance, stability, automation and much more – while the curse of incompetence looms near like a cloud of doom.
How far gone will they be before they rediscover that ignorance is NOT really bliss?
Let's explore a world where technology has evolved to a point where it no longer needs humans to maintain it. A world where humans know little, and grow more irrelevant every day. A small section labelled "Today's World" explains how the flow of time in the ongoing chapter intersects with happenings on Earth, in the 21st century AD.
Is this really fiction? Or maybe this is about the world you live in already.