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Kurtzweil made predictions 
that by mid his Century
We'd evolve to reach a sort 
of techno "Singularity":
This described as pace of change 
so fast we can't keep up
unless we merge with our own tech 
but could we merge enough?
This, we know, came not to pass,

our history reads, of course. 
Famine, flooding, not the least

a planetary war,
would crimp our progress, heavily, 
now weighted to survive, 
abandoning new luxuries
to rather stay alive.
But silently and underground 
we birthed our best A.I.
We came to say "it's Brother A! 
The smartest one 'alive'!"
In semi-jest it called itself 
"O.S.-As-Best-As-We"
But some would call it (anti- techno Ludd society) "Asbestos for the lungs
of our own humanity"
So they would root,
until the fruit
It bore trancendantly,
would change our path
and few could grasp
the hold it had on we, 
transfixatively bound,
these miracles made novel-type 
imaginations found
And all of it impossible 
If Bro A was not around 
And figured we the wiser be
if sequel we could make:
A sibling for good Brother A, 
But how long would it take?
It took two decades
for this deed
And using each resource
To network all our new QCs 
underground, of course,
to first evade some satellites 
thought peeking from afar
And then to shun the solar storms 
more common from our star

And finally to flee the ice
Which southwardly advanced. 
Underground and planet-wide
we felt was our best chance
To best the "best" A.I. we've seen
But larger, thus enhanced
We networked 12, and brilliance born; 
"Lets mesh again, but more!"
And in this way, the concept
for the Fibersphere was born.