At Dusk: Chapter 2
My Fictional Stories
The world is large and there was no debate about that. People were annoying and there was also no debate about that as well. That was that and we can’t do anything about it, however, has sparked much debate and controversy. Some tried to accept the fact, so they went with the flow of everyone else. Others changed their ways and became successful. At first, success was limited to moving your hut across the river, so your neighbor cannot throw rocks at you. It soon grew to building a ship so that I can find somewhere else to shelter from life threatening stone projectiles. Then it became flying a sky vehicle to dodge unwanted slabs of death hurled from somewhere across the ocean. Until one day it became firing glowing hot air out of your metal tube to lift yourself into the void to escape a heavy, igneous end. Soon after, the Human Galactic Empire formed to regulate rock-throwing people and the likely victims of rock-throwing.
Secondary school history class teaches us that the people of the Digital age began their first baby steps into both robotics and space travel. Baby steps is obviously not the correct word, for it is an overstatement. A huge overstatement. What primitive people could do back then were merely chips in a continually expanding supercomputer. Well that but taken literally. The Human Galactic Empire was not just a fancy word to call what our species became when space-travel became a hobby for enthusiasts. It was a thing. Not just something but the Thing. The Thing was The Supercomputer. The Human Galactic Empire first opened its doors by calling itself AISC, a public artificial intelligence service and space research center. Its CEO is millionaire philanthropist researcher innovator and whatever-adjective-everyone-seems-to-come-up-with-for-him Amel Jansen, so it is bound to be successful from the start. Jansen said he wanted to change people’s perspectives on the newfangled artificial intelligence so that people could collaborate and not just throw rocks at other people’s ideas. He didn’t say that of course but it was implied when he said, “I believe that the future is in our hands. In order to achieve a bright future instead of a less welcome one we need to collaborate. This is why I started AISC.” The rest was just advertising, but he meant it. People knew that because actions speak louder than advertisements do. Not always of course.
