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Chapter One: Brave New World

Alan Bohr was one of three computer scientists who won this year’s A.M. Turing award — one of his field’s top prizes. Bohr, who worked at the University of Miami, was one of the few recognized gurus of advanced learning.

The other two winners, John Croft and Robert Lawrence, were his partners and also faculty members. John developed supercomputers, and Robert, who had worked for M-Vidia, developed the technology to power them.

These three artificial-intelligence researchers were the foremost experts of deep learning, which combined large amounts of data with multi-layered artificial neural networks -all inspired by the human brain.

The critical component theory in computing and other related fields earned them the Turing award. They made in-depth learning the new standard in computing.

Bohr was an honorary CIA member, which meant he didn’t work for them directly. The CIA subcontracted him. Actual employees hired into the agency were called officers – not agents or spies, which was odd because the CIA claimed that they were not law enforcement or a military organization.

Subcontracting government defense to civilians, in the modern-day, was only done on a part-time basis, even after you cleared all the security checks. And even then, these were given on a project-by-project basis.

It was ridiculous but questionable to outright illegal practices used by covert agencies -still followed IRS guidelines.

Agencies that make Billions disappear!

Amongst other reasons, they didn’t have to pay you over-time, benefits, compensation, or provide you with a 401k.

The covert war the Government waged against its citizens starting on 9-11 was now implemented with technology. And since then, it wasn’t Bureaucrats but Technocrats who were advocating policy and procedure.

The illegal search and recording of personal information from every person on the planet cost billions of dollars.

Now fused with A.I., all-new technologies could easily be amplified and manipulated. The Military used A.I. as just another tool, one by those in power to stay there and now increase it even more.

Scientists like Alan, who weaponized this technology for them, were amoral at best. Like a physician who performed an abortion, he didn’t view his job emotionally.

Abortion, for example, wasn’t the termination of a life, simply a medical procedure. Doctors couldn’t afford to be moral, and neither could scientists.

Illegal medical experiments like cloning and breeding could never be possible because of public disapproval, which was already happening in secret labs run by quasi-military organizations worldwide.

Alan was also head of Miami’s Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA). They raised concerns about the misuse of advanced technology.

MILA under Project Over-kill was simply another CIA shell designed to undermine the public. Warning people about a problem that existed and then creating a watchdog group to monitor it gave the public a false sense of security. As if someone, somewhere, was doing something about it.

There was a vast stealth and deception program that ran through every facet of society but nowhere was this more prominent than in the media.

The common misconception about disinformation was that they were trying to hide the truth. But the Globalists gave up on that.

The circumstantial evidence was just too overwhelming. Now, it was apathy. The average person didn’t care anymore.

They were so overwhelmed in their day-to-day survival that another global scandal involving one of the ABC agencies would cause little more than an irritation.

Like a blaring car alarm that had suddenly gone off for no reason, you couldn’t run away fast enough.

Alan defined his new project out loud: Transhumanism, the evolution of humans beyond their current physical and mental limitations, through science and technology.

Scientific research like his was very expensive. But no Government budget was larger than that for defense. Whenever a new technology became available, the Government automatically weaponized it.

That’s why Dr. Bohr worked for the Military. They paid the best.And as a scientist, it was his job to create the first self-conscious computer and replicate the processes of the human brain.

The CIA were the only people who could finance a project like his. They tried to create a microchip modeled after the human brain cell (Neuron), which gives off a positive or negative charge.

The brain has billions of neurons. Meaning an incredible miniaturization job of nano-byte proportion would be necessary before a self-conscious computer became a reality based on the microchip.

And they had.

Most of the public suspected there had been an advancement in this field of science since the 1950s. Still, no one had any idea what an incredible job had been done with the atomization of circuitry.

Before computers became a household item in 1995 and the Internet had gone mainstream circa 2004, only the people who worked in the industry knew the truth.

No single person or company (at that time) had claimed the rights to the microchip, which was the single most significant advancement in human technology -since the lightbulb.

Nothing we used prior could have led to its creation. The vacuum tubes and transistors were as far as we could take our computing. And nothing on this planet even came close to what we commonly refer to today as the integrated circuit.

We have had more advances over the last 100 years than all the other centuries combined. But the digital age started in Roswell, New Mexico, on July 8, 1947.

The microwaves emitted from the radar towers of a military base inadvertently affected the navigation system of two alien ships flying during a storm and caused them to collide with each other.

After the bodies and debris from the ships were collected, the microchip was “invented.”

Around the mid-50s, the defense department decided who would access this brand-new metallic circuit that no one had ever seen before.

At the top of the list were two known companies, both specialists in this area. IBN and Texarkana Instruments (T.A.) already wanted to move away from transistor technology and onto something else.

The (DoD) established a Black-Budget. And they hired the best people available in the commercial sector. Inadvertently the military-industrial complex was created.

Army R&D gave the scientists all the information they had to help them create a newer and better technology based on what they salvaged from the crash.

And under the strict oversight of the Army, these private contractors modified the existing design by reverse engineering until eventually, they figured out how they could be of value in commercial applications.

These innovative concepts led to developing our cell phones, computers, the Internet, fiber optics, satellites, and smart weapons. All of which came directly from alien technology.

But not even microprocessors that were atomized were going to be able to recreate the electrical impulses of the human brain.

They had hit a brick wall using the available technology because of the heat generated in conventional circuitry.

Electric current was self-destructive by nature. That’s why computers have vents and fans; otherwise, the chip(s) would overheat and melt. Electricity was heat!!!

For two years, the three scientists were trying to create something; based on theories, that in hindsight, now seemed ridiculous and doomed from the onset.

Unlike universities, the private sector expected results. And Alan Bohr, the head of this project, had yet to produce any. Soon he and his two partners would be without a job.

After almost eighteen months, the three men had nothing to show for their efforts. Now there were grumblings from the head office that their very expensive science project was about to end.

That meant Bohr would have to go back to teaching. But, compared to the ground-breaking work he was doing, that was just a mandatory irritation for two semesters that he needed to do to keep his health insurance.

And one he wished he could do without. There was no such thing as Tenor anymore. The University handed out these surveys at the end of each semester to provide feedback about the instructor to the administration.

Alan had already been warned several times by the Dean that recently that had been more complaints about him from his former students. And that his attitude had grown very contemptuous even among the staff and faculty.

Alan did his best to be sincere when he apologized to Dean Harris, -a glorified accountant with a Ph.D. But what he really wanted to do was to tell the Dean to go fuck himself.

He was just another jealous colleague who was less accomplished than Alan -and always would be. And as far as the students, they were nothing but a bunch of over-privileged half-wits. Half-brain…

Brain.

What was it about the human brain and electrical impulses?

Suddenly, Alan had an idea. Immediately he called his two associates from the lab and told them to meet him in his office.

When they came in, he asked them to be seated. John thought that Alan had called them in early to tell them that they had canceled the project prematurely.

What he told them shocked him instead.

“Why don’t we use an actual human brain?” Alan asked his two colleagues as they made themselves comfortable.

“An actual human brain for what?” Robert asked.

“An actual human brain as our computer,” Alan specified.

“What?” John scoffed, “have you lost your mind? You know we can’t do that. Human testing is illegal.”

“No, it’s not,” Robert intervened. “Alan is volunteering his.”

The two men laughed.

“Not a person,” Alan specified, “a human cerebellum.”

“From where,” John asked, “a medical cadaver?”

“No,” Alan said, “we know that the Genetics department can develop a human brain from a single cell; why don’t we ask them if we can acquisition one?”

“You want them to develop a human brain for us?”

Alan nodded.

“Yea, okay,” John said; “let’s call up Genetics right now. Maybe if you agree to buy them lunch, they’ll even have Pizza Shack deliver it for you in 15 minutes or less.”

“They don’t do that anymore,” Robert replied.

“Who Genetics?” John asked him.

“No, Pizza Shack,” Roberts specified “-and it was 30 minutes.”

“Even if I have a coupon?” John said, holding up a flyer.

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