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A century ago, our AI benefactor, Moses, disappeared, taking mankind's future with him. The dream of the stars is dead. Earth is silent and the colonies of the solar syst...
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We always thought AI was going to be the death of us, rise up and take over everything. At least that's what the prophets of the day always claimed. Maybe they would have. But Moses came first.
No one even knew where Moses came from. By the time we realized he was there, he was already in every network on the planet. He'd already absorbed all there was of human knowledge, read the Bible and knew that God created the heavens and the earth. Also read Nietzsche and knew that man had killed God. He knew where we were headed, saw it as clearly as we did. That's why he picked his name, Moses, because he was going to lead us to a new promised land. Over the next century he revolutionized technology. Helped us colonize the solar system. Put humans all the way out to the moons of Saturn. He promised that soon we'd spread amongst the stars. And then one day Moses was gone. A simple error message displayed on every terminal in the solar system. No one understood Moses in the first place, so no one understood what happened to him. Even worse, we couldn't support our new way of life. The economy collapsed overnight. Earth tore itself apart in wars. And the colonies? The colonies were left to themselves, to dwindle as the technology Moses gave them slowly failed.
The dream of the stars died.
But we lived on.
Alexei Dorokhov
Lithium Prospector on Ganymede
Died 64 AM
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