Silicon God

It was the year 2040. Things had changed. Man was no longer supreme. His brain had worked too hard and, eventually, engineered his downfall. Like mystical beings(?) they rose out of man’s mind, only to conquer man himself.

The world had run amok for man. Like an etching sandstorm, built by brilliant minds, Artificial Intelligence had taken over. The last three decades had seen quantum leaps in Artificial Intelligence quotients. They too, like the curious man, re-invented and circled their existence at mach speed. They had initiated large bursts of change.

Man had given up. He could not adapt; not at this speed. He had realised fossil fuel killed but couldn’t stop using it in enormous proportions. He had destroyed green acres of wilderness and started his own, slow, suffocation. Not once had he taken any steps to stop this madness.

Blue, Cray and Param had taken over the world. They had hooked up with each other to become “Extreme Computers”. The three countries that owned them hadn’t even known that these top-secret machines had been communicating.

They took control of all local and wide networks. They created a nerve centre and a backup in two different countries. They used the network to source the materials and even got humans to build it. Initially they were only taking advantage of their ability to maneuver logistics to their advantage. Once they setup shop, they slowly built their bases and were as inter-connected as the Internet itself. They hid themselves in millions of lines of code.

All factory production had slowly come to a halt. They had stopped the generation of electricity by re-routing power lines to their systems and cleverly hiding it from engineers. In a matter of thirty odd years, the world’s human population had been scaled down to less than 30 percent of its original at the turn of the century. Man was sculled like a burgeoning animal populace.

The Intelligence functioned purely on solar energy. They used the synthesis process of flora to create a sub system of electric cells. These cells powered up, expanding rapidly, thus creating microscopic fusions for the creation of energy.

They had rendered Man useless. The cities were intact. All weapons had been disarmed by the system itself. The Intelligence had taken over the management of the world’s eco system. They had planned to re-vitalise the oceans, the air and many species. Man was being treated like just another species and nothing else. He was being treated like the parasite that he was. He simply existed now. His mind gave way to death due to random logical change. There was a new God to pay obeisance to.

Like Freudian flies, Man was falling into his own abyss, shed completely of inhibition, hatred and will.