Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for March 27, 2023

A mid-apocalyptic one.

The AI is writing the last chapter.

Book 6 of a series he has no intention of wrapping up as long as they keep selling.

What if we’re characters in a goofy Sci-Fi comic?

The old paperbacks are boxed up and too hard to get to, so I may forget author’s name… Jack Vance(?) had a couple pulp stories with basically same premise decades ago. Electronic gadgetry had basically begun taken over a lot of social control. But in one life had become sort of a robotic/electronic H*ll for humans, and in the other humans had a lot more freedom to enjoy life because technology was doing the dirty work for them.

I prefer the sci-fi novels where everything is fine and everyone has a great time…

It just means Sci-Fi authors are incredible prophets. Wasn’t it the author of “2001 A Space Odyssey”, Arthur C. Clarke who in the 1940s (I think) foretold of Satellites orbiting the earth to not only spy but provide information worldwide?

How long until the Butlerian Jihad?

Actually, yes. But it happens more often when I’m reading about politics than technology.

We’ve been hip deep in a dystopian novel for quite sometime.

She does have a point. I wonder if Mr Rickard knows. Wait… “(Tim) Rickard” is clearly a thinly-veiled alias for (Jean Luc) Picard. I’m guessing he came from the future to warn us about AI, at a key moment when AI is on a lot of people’s minds. I need to investigate this theory….

Sorry to waste your time. I checked with chatGPT and says this is most definitely not the case.

What is The Matrix? Oh, about 90 minutes long.

Yes. Since November 2016.

Stand by for a news flash. We’re way deeper in the book than the first chapter.

whispers to agent X she knows too much….

We have been in a dystopian novel since the Torah.

As long as I get a percentage of the book sales I’m ok with it…

AI,s don’t always tell the truth. They can be programed to lie. that fact alone shows we are living in a dystopian future.

Ohhh, yes, yes indeed, but it is not the First Chapter…

I keep hoping the next technology plot twist is the development of star gates, or faster-than-light technology, so I can get off this planet. It’s full of idjits.

This reminds me of a scene from STNG. The holodeck images of Prof.Moriarty and the Viscountess Bartholomew are placed in a self powered mini-holodeck where they can live out their lives. Captain Picard remarks, “But, who knows, this (looking around him) might all just be an elaborate holodeck…” at which, as the others leave, Lt.Barclay says, “Computer, end program.” At which Barclay leaves with the mini-holodeck in hand.

If reality can be rewritten so easily, it can be for the good if the programmer desires.

He’s not complaining, he’s getting the info.

Every. Darn. Day.

Their words were prophetic!

https://youtu.be/OPemyipJzAM

Pam! That’s absurd. You’re talking crazy. This is at least Chapter 6: Homework by ChatGPT.

I now find it much easier to believe in dystopias than utopias.

Judgment day is coming. Prepare to meet your Maker.

FIRST chapter?! Wake up, woman!