One of these amazing feats was humanity's long organized retreat to southern latitudes and underground into the "Purgadromes" - huge subterranean cities full of people escaping the cold, and concentrating their efforts and resources. They first appeared in 3063....the first one in New Denver, of the former USA (a territory now called Sabbatha 5). Eight more followed, scattered over the globe, over the next 4 decades. These vast underground cities were over 100 levels down, each level large enough for to hold 20 football fields. They had modernized conveniences, schools, poola, mLLA, ns huge indoor farms all contained within these immense subterranean artificial geodes. Once inside, getting online and accessing the Network was as easy as putting your finger on any Access-I-Pad. Rare at first, but eventually found in every room of the 'drome, these pads weresimply a fingerprint scanner, that could then connect you to the "Network", or retrieve content from your personal data-bank back-ups (which was almost never needed, as that info was banked internally in nano-cells throughout the bloodstream).
3150: Brain Implantable Cere-Chips
All Access-I-Pads had displays in the beginning, especially in the early days of the 'dromes. But when the tech became available (a late development by Brother A) many people chose a neural implant fitting in the back of their skull. This would be connected directly into their occipital lobes, producing a visual image of network content on their brain's visual cortex. They then "saw" the display, in complete Ultra-Def detail (as detailed as what the optic nerve would normally supply), as well as their own surroundings, and neither perception impaired the other, as the user could toggle back and forth with a thought. This nearal implant technology (cere-chips) led to the discovery of the super-plasticity of the visul cortex: capable of processing information (after retraining) in greater detail than the optic nerve could provide. Further research led to implanting visual coritcal stimulators at a young age, in combo with implanted sensors in their eyes/skin/forehead, and after years of cortical rewiring to accept and interpret this added sensor data....this would yield adults with infra-red or ultraviolet vision, as well as "seeing" ultrasonic waves, temperature, external pressure, humidity......etc).
3489 C.E. Present Day
The bulk of humanity is living underground in Purgadromes. The climate and environment now resemble that of early 1900, as well as having a similar population size. One critical difference is that the atmospheric 02 concentration is higher, about 25%. Two-hypersmart quantum computer (QC) collectives live underground: one with vastly superior calculation ability, able to run population, universe and planetary simulations connecting QCs all over the world, known as the Fibersphere ("BB", "BoB", "Brother B"). The 20 year older and far smaller A.I. collective (Brother A) was made of only 12 networked iOSs (each maintaining it's "i"ndependent thought seperate from the others). BB has many thousnads more connections, but no longer "i"ndependent...all became slaves to the master Program, once connected. Brother A seemed to have intuitive, imaginative and inventive abilities far superior in achievement compared against the pure calculative braun of Brother B.
Humankind has not been on the forefront of innovation since the birth of QC networking. Brother A manifested a magical creativity that could not be replicated by future networks many times superior in terms of pure calculation. Attempts to re-create a new Brother A, with 12 or more "i"ndividuals tended to illustrate the non-repeatability of the magically-interwoven connections of this unique hive-mind. Like the rarest kind of "Fateful Encounter", the conditions for a perfect union (with perfectly symmetrical compatibility, no one program ascending to dominate the whole), are nearly impossible to recreate, and so every succeeding attempt to create another Brother A, (even by Brother A) has failed.
Life in the Purgadromes, while filled with most comforts and conveniences, also meant strict rationing and resource management. Procreation Licenses were coveted by most, but only obtained by some. There was severe penalties for unlicensed breeding, or hoarding.. And escape to live on the outside without approval, generally wasn't possible.
Also, many suspected that the A.I. that were operating had developed a new sentience.....though this was hard to confirm. For as to whether they had other motivations that went beyond their programming, wasn't easy to prove, as we would have no way of coming into this knowledge unless the A.I. divulged it voluntarily. They could pretend to have no additional insight, and appear to be nothing more than what their programmers intended. In fact many programmers took a deep look inside and, concluded that was exactly what they believed was happening. But why the A.I.s kept this a secret, or what they wanted was a mystery. We had lived with the Fibersphere and Brother A for over 400 years. They didn't want us dead, that much was fairly clear, or it would've happened long ago. But what DID they want? That was anybody's guess.
The Fibersphere 3483 C.E.
To be continued.....
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