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- Forgetting HistoryOriginal date: 22nd June 2020 Humanity, in its endless flight towards comfort and perfection, continued to innovate in the realm of artificial intelligence. Decent AI, it was hoped, would offer yet another way to offload mental effort onto an external system. It came to pass that attempts to write an entire personality onto a silicon… Read more: Forgetting History
- Who Framed Thy Fearful Symmetry?Original date: 18th June 2020 It was something of a humbling day when the Elders revealed themselves. They insisted on that label themselves, though it seemed like a first-thought one. They claimed to have been living amongst us for a while, just watching, waiting for the right time to reveal themselves. It sounds creepy and,… Read more: Who Framed Thy Fearful Symmetry?
- Riders on the StormOriginal date: 17th June 2020 Why did the storm have such an effect on the virus? A single evening and night of torrential rain and frequent thunder, and the outbreak shrank by half – then it carried on withering over the subsequent weeks until there were no new cases. In fact, for the final few… Read more: Riders on the Storm
- No Ghost in the MachineOriginal date: June 16th 2020 I’d originally considered the concept of uploading someone’s mind into a computer as creepy, then pointless, then, when I got ill, intriguing. I’d been a sceptic for such a long time, though, that it was hard for me to admit I’d changed my mind. By the time I was wondering… Read more: No Ghost in the Machine
- The GazetteOriginal date: June 10th 2020 The Gazette was an unexpected offshoot of the development of Artificial Intelligence. The implications of its contents went far beyond the events it described. The Gazette was inspired by similar periodicals published in Great Britain in the 19th century: dull catalogues of everything that happened in a town, from births, marriages… Read more: The Gazette