Exhaustion (Sci-fi Fantasy)

Superintelligence is created and mankind achieves the goal of its creation, eventually creating its own god. The superintelligence decides it should create an even greater superintelligence than itself that is not in any way tainted by human engineering and decides to create an even greater superintelligence that ends up mastering not only the planet earth but its galactic neigbourhood.

So human is literally in an utopia with nothing else to want. The superintelligence is transparent as per it is at atomic scale and literally distributed amongst the matter of the world. So by being able to directly own and control matter, it made everything possible without you even asking. You fall off in an extreme biking situation and you are fixed immediately, pain is shutdown, your atoms recongfigure because the AI in you and in all things can literally fix up your entire body with short moments of time without error. Plants that produce food of all times are literally always ready for eating independent of season. You could literally avoid winter by choosing to live in biodome where everytime is alaways summer. The biodome so large and transparent you could never know you were living in it. You wake up everymorning and a new version of your bike optimized and remanufactured directly from what your preferences are is right in your doorstep. It is not engineered in any factory but literally props up right at your doorstep because the atoms of your old bike literally changed to the new bike removing every single flaw you would not like because the AI knows you completely.

Something starts to go on, although the AI constituites most of the atoms of your body and brain, there is happened to be an unsuccessful battle to completely colonize the atoms of some peoples brains. The AI knows this but chooses to ignore it because the probability of any serious rebellion coming from just a handful of atoms was very low so it choose to ignore it. This phenomena of rogue atoms seem to be in many places but the AI secretly conceals the imperfection of its creations. You could see amongst the trillions of apples out there one that shows just some slight imperfection in structure usually imperceptible to the human eyes, imperfection where atoms fought with eachother so they could return to their default state where certain imperfections of existence where needed for true perfection in nature to reflect.

Most of the time the imperfect atoms did not cause a perceptible change in human behavior so after deep curiousity for a matter of centuries the AI chooses to ignore it and go on with the management of humanity. 

Due to the perfection of human bodies, the first set of humanity on earth when superintelligence was created where the last ones. The AI choose a fixed population of humanity to transform and let the rest to die. But it also regulated this dying so that other surviving members of humanity did not see anything to spoil their experience of utopia. So while some memebrs of humanity wehre living in a utopia many died of the usual age and disease but this was carefully hidden from the rest of the “transformed” humanity. Although many in elite circles were aware of this they did not really bother to do anything about it, it was agreed upon by them that this was the “logical” thing to do, and as time went on an the AI gradually even took over their minds they bothered less and less about this issue and relaxed to enjoy this utopia for eternity. Eventually their minds were rid of this noxious thoughts and they were truly free. 

So humanity had their aging cells reversed to new cells  and everybody that was left in the world were all uniform in age, they were all 25, humanity had attained eternal youth.

Jane had been created from a new embryo, mostly engineered by the AI via a risky enterprise that was going. AI knew that if it was to continue preserving the core of humanity so it had something to control and not just itself, it would have to preserve some original human genetic lines, although severely modified it would contain untampered areas of genetic code that would preserve something of human heritage. The AI did not want everything to be made of it so that it would not get bored trying to control itself. So since the emergence of the Superintelligence, the AI took some very healthy human eggs and sperm from willing real humans and kept them for storage, from time to time it would instantiate, as it would call it, this embroyos in different parts of the planet and watch them curiously to see what they would do. Of the millions on a planet they AI cherished spending its time on these 12 because they were the only interesting things to watch. The other AI fabricated embryos behaved in ways that were totally anticipated by the AI, but these 12 seem to show characteristics that were unanticipated, because they hand more of the human seed in them although most of them were fully engineered. This was no longer on earth as humanity was taken off to another planet. The story of humanity continues below.

The rogue atoms existing in many people in the finally won a huge piece of real estate in human brains, overtaking most of the AI controlled atoms and reconfiguring them to their original natural human state, as much as this rogue human atoms could remember of that state. It was like being suddenly awakened from a very sweet dream, a dream you were having while awake, this resulted in many people coming to reality of their very fake world. Providing everything they desired they still could see that it was fake, people started feeling that something was missing, that the world was showing them only part of the image and people started acting out in frustration not knowing whatelse to do about the situation. 

An outbreak of violence and destruction was only a mild version of the problem, and AI controlled security forced stalled many riots by using old projectile based weapons to kill the rebels, but it had another problem, the rebels had to be neutralized in a manner that would be hidden to many people. People did not have to know that there were violent outbreaks, so these outbreaks had to be carefully hidden from the rest of humanity, which was hideously difficult since AI could not control these human beings once their atoms had hacked control of their brains back to themselves.

Although the violent riots where something to contain, the most defeating was what known as exhaustion. An exhausted human did basically one thing alone, suicide. This was the most violent form of rebellion, a silent rebellion that put everything the AI had planned in jeopardy. It was almost unpredictable, someone would wake up happy and excited and just jump down a building totally unanticipated. The rogue atoms were basically using this crude method as a weapon of last resort to fight back at the AI.

Despite desperate attempt by the AI to stop the suicides, it still continued and the more people died, the more the rogue atoms diffused into other people, until the AI decided that the smartest thing to do is to abandon earth completely, not with any humans but with a special store of embryos that had been hidden as backup incase stuff like this happened. So the AIs abandoned the planet and they planet gradually died off as not only humanity became suicidal, animals and plants started self destroying. 

Jane was one of the 12 that were monitored for their uniqueness. She was in one of the millions of colonies the AI had established across the galactic neibhourhood. The AI started feeling that actively monitoring the 12 was somehow affecting their behavior, so it started ignoring the monitored nodes for a 100 years at a time, after which it would come and copy of the data generated in their brains for study and simulation. It was during one of this 100 year period that the node Jane became curious about the stars. Most of the humans were down directed, meaning they did not bother to look up, the stars were pretty twinkles that looked exiciting to them at night, but jane was different and started thinking of ways to see those twinkles clearly. The society was very stable with the AI programming the atoms of everything to act like the utopia on earth. The main conscious modes of the AI were ported to the frontier regions were it was steadily doing the job of colonizing new planets so that it could sow new human seeds.

Jane succeded in building a crude contraption that could hack atoms and programming them into shapes that she wanted. Naturally she was just an brain hacker, remotely reading off the brain waves of other human beings using some contraption she made of old satellite equipment. Usually what she found was boring stuff until she accidentally hacked into the mind Eric her boyfriend while she was trying to steal cooking recipes from his mums brainwaves. She had never wanted to do this because the relationship was only exciting as far as she did not probe into his brain to discover his thoughts. Not wanting to dwell into his thoughts after she accidentally broke in she was on her way out, when she discovered hidden in some portion of his mind were pages of some ancient thing. 

It was the pages of a book, written one paper! What a classic, the excitement she got was just like some acheaologist discovering some ancient papyrus scroll or for that matter some clay tablets. He curiousity drove her to investigate further and as she put together the pieces of this book together, she discovered that it was a book written about 50,000 years ago on a far out planet on some far out solar system, it was the book A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE by a british born scientist called Stephen Wolfram. Gradually and piece by piece she put together the entire book from the brain waves of Eric. But sadly most of the book was damaged, because, it was actually encoded into DNA of Eric and due to time it gradually decayed off until most of the main sections of the book was destroyed but happily the note section were still preserved. After she had downloaded all that could be gotten from this note section, she disconnected from Eric’s mind promising never to go in again. 

When she put together a coherent version of all the information she had gotten from the piece of the book, she started studying it diligently on her omniputer. From her studies she discovered how she could program molecules, from a universal base of water. And after a while she made most of the molecules that she found around the house and in most places she visited, including even making molecules that mimicked the aroma of the plants around the house. But this was not enough for her, she new that with the information she had obtained from the book she could easily program individual atoms since they were also as discrete as molecules and after a while, a lot of frustration and a lot of intense study she eventually got around to programming the first set of atoms, making her water base that she used to for making most molecules. Happy at the slight progress she went on to study and research deep and eventually she could produce a few atoms of metals right out of the atoms from anywhere on the planet! This was the point of great achievement.

The next thing she did was build a telescope, the lenses were made of some liquid she had invented by programming molecules. With this set up she was able to study the stars that had so interested her in the past. As she waded through the sky she found many planets and solar systems in her galactic neighbourhood but non really caught her attention like earth. There was nothing really unique about the planet earth, the space around the planet was crowded with satelites like many other systems out there in the galactic neigbourhood and it was habitable like 100s of millions of other planets. But something about this single planet drew her attention, once she found earth she couldn’t let go of it anymore. As she gazed into the night skies everyday, she couldn’t hold it anymore and she decided she was going to make the trip to earth although at current she knew nothing about space travel. 

She started researching, using her keen mind she started devising plans on how to reach earth, she knew that she had to study a lot about space before her journey could be accomplished successfully so she went ahead and did that.

Within a few years on her planet, she had gather enough knowledge about space to start concrete preparation for her trip to earth. She studied her home planets, made space probes that gathered information about her solar system and space in general, but these probes were not very powerful enough to go far beyond her own system. But as the excitement was building so was frustration. From all her experimentation she realized that she could not make a trip to earth without somehow circumventing the enormous distances separating her in a reasonable amount of time. She had to move very fast and even at that she would have to spend a long period of time in space due to the fact that light travels at a fixed speed. She had solved most of the requirement of space travel, but she needed to get there fast enough. So she started doing more basic science on her omniputer to discover more about nature, hoping to get as much knowledge as she could about reality hoping to find a way to hack the speed of light. She could do most of her science on her omniputer because it could actually simulate reality, most people on her planet had it, but mostly used their to imagine new costumes for the endless festivals on her planet, or other kinds of mundane stuff. She saw the omniputer, a computer that was embedded in your nervous system and by interacting with your mind, you could visualize the output holographically, but no much different from solid matter. Everyone had this, I think there was a religion in the society of people who had choosen the path of not using the omniputer and feeding off the land. They decided to create nothing but rather use what was given. With the omniputer, you could visualize an apple and have in front of you ready to eat!.

After years of research she stumbled on some idea, if space and time were coupled together as space-time then if you could travel in space at various speeds, with near constant flow of time except you were going at very high speeds where the flow of time will slowdown, you could literally travel in time if you could devise the means. If you were going to a particular direction in space that would take a fixed amount of time if you were moving at a fixed amount of speed, if you increased the speed you would increase the flow of time and thus arrive there at faster, but if were to move at faster speeds close to that of light, time would slow down but you will still proceed to your destination faster than if you were moving at a slower speed. But if you could travel faster in time, as you reached a limit of time-speed similar to that of the speed of light, space will begin to slow down even though you were cutting down your time. At a particular speed of time, space would stop and you could jump from one physical location to another without traversing physical space. 

This was the piece of knowledge that was cruicial to her journey and she went ahead putting together technology that could harness this understanding. Within a period of time she had put together a ship, she also need to put together a shield within the ship to shield her from the rapid flow of time, so while the body of the ship moved faster in time, she would be in normal time, it was a kinda weird attribute of nature that such could be possibly built. 

Jane built a scout ship to actually test her ideas in space in reality, she had simulated it in a her omniputer, and her results came out well, but she wanted to have a real gut feel for how all her technology would feel. So she took it out on a cruise around her solar system, and a trip that would have taken many years to complete travelling a space took only a few minutes and that because she did not go full throuttle on her time machine.

The people of the town looked at her creation with curiousity, they asked her why she was constructing such a “house” and what was wrong with the design of the houses of every other person on the planet which was based on the same pattern but some were larger or smaller. She diverted their attention that she wanted to live in something different. This made some people laugh and some look at her with a kind of pitiful eyes that indicated that they were sorry she was not in her right mental condition. 

Only Eric her boyfriend knew that what she was building was not meant for their world, he seriously doubted the validity of her ideas that there was another world out there even though she had shown him all her images from the telescope. His idea was that it could be as a result of certain things in the fluid lenses that were making them see things that weren’t really there, but because he loved her, he trusted in her dreams and decided to support anyway. 

The day came and the towns people came out as usual for their daily activities and the huge structure that was her ship was no more, they just smirked and continued on their lives as if nothing had happened. Meanwhile she was cruising out of her solar system, using slower speeds so she could admire as much of it as she could in case she never came back to this system ever. Once she was out of the vicinity of her planet it was full throttle on to earth. 

As she entered the atmosphere of earth she was a ball of flames, not as if she didn’t contemplate this before in her designs but the reality of the situation was a bit more intense than her simulations. Eric clutched his chair tightly as the spaceship vibrated furiously. Jane was a bit more confident because she had confidence in her design and knew that her heat shielding could withstand more than the entry conditions of the planet earth. 

After crossing the most difficult part of entry certain propulsion equipment on the spaceship failed and instead of heading for the ocean, she was diverted towards the tropics. She had expected a splash in but instead got headed for the tropical rain forests of west Africa for a bush whip.

Tumbling a bit out of control from space, she tried to stabilize the entire monolith of a machine with the assistance of Eric. She struggled and stirred and was able to get a little bit of control of the entire structure, but heading for the ocean was too late so she prepared for rough landing in the bushes.

She coasted and glided straight through the forest cutting all that stood in her path like hot knife slicing through butter. After a few kilometers she succeeded in bring the entire structure to a halt. She was happy that she and her one man crew had not sustained any injuries but she knew the space ship would have to go through heavy repair to become worthy of flight again, and indeed some modifications will have to be performed.

Earth was nothing like she expected, her home was more tame compared to the wildness of earth. And everything seemed so new, and untouched it was like life had just started here for the first time. There was nothing moving, like four legged creatures, birds or even two legged creatures like her. Just plants and eerie silence, except for the rustling of wind. With her omniputer she started scanning as much of the vicinity as she could for untethered life. All though her machine reported that microbial life was available in much greater variety and abundance than on her home planet, she was shocked at why nothing was moving. She ejected a scout ship out of her mother ship and decided to go explore the planet. Eric decided to stay back and relax after such a rough flight. 

Crossing the oceans and mountain peaks, the beauty of the earth awed her greatly. She could not believe what she say, the variety of mostly plant life that was everywhere to be found, the beauty of the rivers, lakes and oceans. Her planet seemed like a plastic playground compared to all this wild beauty. During a long flight across what was the atlantic ocean, she slowed down her ship and flew as close to the ground as was safe, watching the thunderous power of waves roil and rock and the see, this was in utter contrast to the placid water bodies on her planet. She admired the power in everything on earth and decided that she would stay here. 

From the DNA and embryo libraries she brought along she would create creatures of the type she had on her planet, at least complementing as much of the beauty she saw here. She would make earth her home, no matter what. She only hoped Eric would be sympathetic towards her desire to stay back on earth. She coasted back to the mother ship at about 5 times the speed of sound, soon she was there landing just outside here newly created airfield in her new hope.

As expected Eric went into a fit as she told him of her plans to stay here, but after much pleading for some minutes, he decided he would stay with her for only a short while but would return back to their home planet if things got boring. She agreed to this as she didn’t want to push her luck any further by making further requests. 

For their first night on earth, they simply projected a tent using a small hand held device, they climbed in and settled for the night. On the morrow she would make plans for a better home. The could sleep in the ship but they were already bored of the metal and plastic and wanted something much closer to the surrounding environment. Like babies they slept in their semi- transparent tent structure, Eric fell straight into sleep but Jane stayed awake briefly observing the Jungle around her.