Ether

ETHER

A Tale of things that may come

I’m really not sure just how I should begin this. Most of you will believe this to be my attempt at some kind of fame. Maybe I’m just letting my imagination chain be jerked by some unbalanced deranged listener to my internet radio show. I never started out to become a Radio Host, it just kind of happen. It would seem that I’m easy to talk with. One of the shows I do interviews, and I get to talk to all kinds of people. My guests come from all walks of life, Doctors, Authors, Scientist or everyday people.

The subjects cover most any topic, but the ones I like the most are the ones that talk about the strange and unusual. Ghosts, Time Travel, UFO’s, and Crypto Creatures are among my favorite talks. I receive E-mails all the time about my guests or the subjects we talk about. They tell me their experiences, and I must admit some of them are really out there.

At the beginning of last year, I began receiving a series of E-mails that I found a little disturbing. They were from someone calling their self’s Dr. Ben Adair, who claimed to be part of something called Ether. This in its self is not unusual, people are always telling me that they work for this secret organization or that one, so to hear of Ether was no big deal to me. Reading the E-mail disturbed me, to say the least about them.

Let me first tell you that I tried to trace where each E-mail had come from, and each had a different account where I could find one, and each was from a different Country. It was not for lack of effort on my part, because I really wanted to know if this could in any way be real. There was just something about what he wrote that made fell that there was more too all this. I have made my judgment on what they say and do not want to sway yours. I’ll let you read them in the same way as I received them, you make up your own mind about them, but remember that after all is said and done you have been warned of the danger that just maybe.

E-Mail 1-1/2/18

I understand with the position that you are in you must get E-mails like this all the time. Believe me when I tell you that you were not my first choice to make contact with what I’m about to tell you, but I was convinced it should be you. Your position as a Radio Host seems to be of an asset to me. What I’m about to tell you needs to go public and in doing so may one day help to save many lives.

I do realize that the way I’m passing you this information will be thought of as just another inner net conspiracy, but it is the only way that I’m able to get it to you at this time. I will apologize to you now for whatever harassment that you will receive from telling the World about this. Many will call you crazy, but hopefully many will at least listen to what is being said. With that being said I’ll begin.

I will never forget that day back in 2018 no matter how long I may live. I had just turned 18 and was about to complete my third year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I was studying machine learning. I wanted as much knowledge of how Artificial Intelligence really worked as I could get. Then I was naive about how this technology would affect the World. Many at the time thought it would be the only way that Mankind would survive past 2030.

Billions were pushed into this technology, but I’m getting ahead of myself here. The first thing you should understand is that as you read this most of the things that I describe may not have happened for you yet but are never the less the reality that I have lived. You may find this hard to believe, but I’m just over 900 years old. I know what you must be thinking but where I’m at its the year 3000. Yes, Mankind will soon learn to cure most diseases and begin to live longer and longer. Soon there will be great advancements in physics as well, but the real achievements will be in Artificial Intelligence and the D-wave computers.

You see many have tried to conquer time travel but when someone does they never end up on the same timeline that they came from, yes they will return to theirs but not visit their own. I could go into that more, but I don’t have the time now and to ensure that I get this to the right timeline I had to rely on this method. There are many technical aspects that I will not have time to go into so please bear with me.

I’m sure by now you have tried to trace the e-mail address and have found that they don’t exist, or not as of yet to your point of view. By now I hope that your curiosity will keep you reading. Like I had said that day in 2018 was when I first begin to learn just what AI Technology was capable of. As I, slipped the key into the lock of my small apartment I heard my name called out. I had heard of the Men in Black from all the Conspiracy Theorists out there since 911 and never thought there was anything to it, but when I, turned around that is what I found standing there. They showed to me what looked like official CIA identification and asked that I accompany them as it was a matter of National Security.

An hour later I was the lone passenger on a Lear Jet with its windows blacken out. I had no clue where I was heading or why it was me that they wanted. I could think of nothing that I could know about that anyone would want my help with but then again they may not want my help at all. Maybe I was being incarcerated. This thought did not fit right either. After all, I was a nobody, yes I was only 18 and about to receive my doctorate but the World was full of people just like me and even young that had their doctorates. I lost track of how long I was in the air, my phone had stopped work all together as if it was turned off and it would not turn back on, I tried a couple of times.

As I said I have no idea of how long I was in the air, it could have been a few hours but when the plane did landed it taxied for some time before stopping. When the door open there were two men in some kind of uniform that I had never seen before and I was asked to fallow them. I was kind of shocked when I stepped out of the plane. We were in some kind of huge hanger so big and dark I had no idea of just how big. There was only one light on a wall about 20 yards away with a door under it. It looked strange, just that door and a little of the wall and floor showed in the dark. I had never seen darkness like that before. As I followed the men I could not hear any echo from our footfalls, this meant the place was really huge.

The door opened into a small room, where there was one stool in front of some kind of large metal box. One of the men told me to sit and face the box.

The other went behind and a moment later pined a badge on to my jacket’s lapel saying that never to remove it if I wanted to level the complex again. Well maybe I was not being incarcerated but still had no clue what was going on. From there I was led through a couple of other rooms, one was a clean room that used light and sound to rid the body of any grams or viruses. Another was to check that I was not carrying any kind of spying equipment. They had already taken my phone from me in the first room. I never thought that our Government would use this much security.

At the time I was a young man and had no real clue how the World ran but that was soon to change. After a good hour, they give me back my phone and led me into a small office and told me to take a seat, someone would be in soon to speak with me. So far this had been the strangest day of my life. At this point, I was so confused. There was only a desk and chair and the chair in front of it, the one I sat in. The block walls were painted a light tan, with a white drop ceiling and a sky blue carpet, as I learn later most of the complex was just as dull. I racked my brain trying to understand what the Government could want from me. I was a nervous wreck by the time the door open, but who walked in did not make me feel any better. Even I know who he was.

It was the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. He sat down smiling at me knowing I all ready know who he was by the look on my face. He said that I was in a Research Complex named Ether and told me he had been running it since 1968 and he would soon be leaving the office of Secretary of State and was ready to retire. To my surprise, he told me he had been watching my study’s and wanted to offer me the position of CEO. I must stop here, for now, I’ll explain later.

E-Mail 2-1/13/18

I’m sorry my first e-mail ended so suddenly, you see that name triggered an AI tracer mimic, and I can not be found out. You see I only have a window of a few milliseconds to send this data. I just hope that it reaches you in the right order, time displacement is a tricky thing to get working right and takes a lot of power. From this point on I’ll be using pseudonyms, so as to make it harder to find me and if you have not figured it out yet, Ben Adair is also one. Had I known what I know now than I would have run from that office and not looked back. I know this is hard for you to understand but life in my time has little remnants to what life is like in yours. I’ll explain this more as I continue.

We spent the next 3 hours talking. Ether stood for Earth, Time, Heaven, and Energy Research and was at the time the largest Research complex in the World but it was also a Black Government Project. The Secretary of State wanted to change this, and he wanted me to be the one to take it public. I asked why me and he said that being a young man, the younger people would take notice of me being in such a position and I had the basic knowledge on all most all of the research that went on at Ether. The main research had to do with machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, and D-Wave computers. I’m sure that most of you have heard of Artificial Intelligence, but in your time it was not a big deal. He asked that I stay a few days and learn what Ether was all about and how he believes it was Mankind’s only hope for a future. He pulled a file out of the desk drawer throw it on the desk and told me that it should answer most of my questions.

He stood shook my hand and said he would return in a few days for my answer and he left the office. A moment later I was along reading the file. Inside on the first page at the top in bold letters was Ether and under that was Owner and CEO, Dr. Ben Adair. Ether was big, and I mean it was big, or I should say is because it's there in your time. The second page was a map. It was laid out in a triangle grid. Three miles to aside. One leg had 5 main areas for research, another a residential area with a school, mall, and park with a good size lake for swimming. There where 200 family units or more I thought. The last leg was were the Administration office, storage, train depot and the airport where.

The Ether complex was started in the ’50s and was still being worked on. There were over a 1000 full-time researchers and at any given time, and around 200 part-time. There was a red circle about a quarter-mile round between the airport and the train depot marked CEO. It was where the CEO’s residence was. The map showed no details of what was in the circle. I spent some time memorizing the map. An hour later I was sitting at a dining table in the CEO’s residence. Here I was an 18-year-old student of Machine Learning being asked to take control and ownership of what was the Worlds largest research company. I wondered what the catch was. There was just no way the Government would give away billions of profit to a nobody like me. I was not a businessman of any kind.

There was a soft gong noise, and a female voice said, “Dr. Adair, there is a gentleman named Dr. Bob Gehret insisting on see you, sir.”

“Thank you… What is you’re name?” I asked.

“My name is Alice.” The voice replayed.

“Not the Social Network Alice I hope.”

“No sir, I am a stand-alone program, but she was molded in my likeness. She is a cheap knock off.” I thought I heard proudness in her voice. Alice explained that she was the CEO’s Personal AI Assistant. I wondered at the time who was her programmer and if I know who they were. “If you follow the red line on the floor it will bring you to you’re guest.” I thanked her. This Gehret was the head of research from what I read in the file. I thought maybe he was here to fill me in on just what they wanted from me. The file had told me a lot about what was going on there but not what they were expecting from me.

It took a full 2 minutes to reach the room where Gehret was waiting. He had not seen me enter the room and was pacing back and forth. In his hand was a file that had to be 2 inches thick. He was 60 to 65 years old and was bald. He had a pair of reading glasses on his face. When he saw me, he stopped dead in his tracks, looked me up and down and said “Really.” He walked over holding out the file. “I assume you know who I am, so here is the file. I don’t understand what the Secretary of State thinks I can get done with the pseudoscience nerds he keeps sending me to work with, you have to fix this or we will not meet any of the deads lines.” He had a look of despair, a complete lack of any hope.

I had no clue what he was talking about. I asked him to please take a seat and I sat down. Alice asked if we would like a drink and I said I’d take a glass of milk, Gehret wanted a brandy. A moment later a tray floated out of a panel in the wall with a tall glass of milk, a bottle, and brandy glass, it parked its self on the end table. It was the first time I had ever seen an anti-gravity device in use and wondered why this kind of technology was not out in the World. I could tell Gehret was not impressed by its use. He reached out and filled his glass up. I need to stop here for my attention is needed elsewhere for now.

E-Mail 3-2/13/18

Sorry, it has been so long, things here are not going as we had planned. I have had to take more care in what I’m doing on the web for fear of being found out. It would seem that I’m not the only one who is sending information back to you’re time. I have intercepted some data from a message to a server in New York. Just 3 words Caravan, Pizza and Jail. They from here are trying to control the outcome of the future. I believe that each of the words means something to me, but I’m to preoccupy trying to keep everything running here. I have spent near 800 years fighting this battle, and I find I have a need that someone else knows my story and the past was the only place there will be anyone if I lost this fight. I hope hearing it maybe someone can change some of the worst of it or maybe even prevent some of it from happening.

That first night in the Ether complex so long ago for me really took its toll. Dr. Gehret was under the impression that I was already the CEO of Ether. It took me an hour to convince him I was not yet anything to him or Ether. The Secretary of State had already told the department heads that I had taken the position. I was not sure if I should have been mad or not, did he really know what I would do?

If I did take over Ether from what I had seen so far it would not be long before the World as I had known it would change fast. Gehret turned out to be a nice guy who was just under to much pressure. I took a look at the file he handed me and seen he was right, there where many that I had heard of but not many that impressed me. I had asked who did the recruiting and he told me that it was handled by the Administration office. That explained a lot I thought. The business mind has no clue about science, only about the cost vs profit.

Once Gehret had left I had a talk with Alice and asked her point-blank who did she think I was and she answered “Name Dr. Ben Adair, born January 13, 2000, at Madison County Memorial Hospital Madison Florida. Mother died at birth, Father unknown. Raised and schooled till 15 years old at a Catholic Orphanage. Reserved Doctorate in machine learning from MIT at 18 years old. Current position Owner and CEO of Ether.” She had called me Doctor, and I had not as yet received my doctorate. It would seem that everyone around there thought I was already the boss but me.

“Thank you, Alice. Is there an Itinerary set for tomorrow?” she told me there was not. “Can I get someone to show me around tomorrow starting at around 10 am?” She told me that it was scheduled. I asked where I was to sleep, and she gave me a blue line on the floor to follow. She told me that the master bedroom suite had total privacy and if I need her help to yell out X-ray or I could call 8102 on my phone to talk with her. I noticed that 8102 was the year backwards.

The walk to the master suite took some time, so I asked if there was any faster way to get around and she answered, “Of course sir, there are a couple of electric golf carts for you’re uses and the whole complexes have designated Slip Disk areas.” I had no clue at the time what a Slip Disk was, but it sounded like it was a lot faster than a golf cart. When I reached the suite, I was stunned by its size. My suite cases were sitting on the bed. They had gone into my apartment and packed my clothes. Wow, I thought the Secretary of State sure did think I would not turn him down or was I being really being hi-jacked? I had to reassure myself, so I pulled out my phone and pushed 8102. Alice’s voice sounded clear, “Yes sir”

“Can I leave The Ether complex whenever I want?” I asked, “You are free to go where you would like when you want.”

“Thank you, Alice.” I hung up. At least I was not a prisoner. I looked through my suitcases, found my boxers and a t-shirt. I walked into the bathroom. It was as big as my whole apartment. There was a waterfall that continuously filled the bath, that was all most a kiddie pool 3 foot deep. I wondered if the water was recycled or not. It did not take me long to be neck-deep in the warm water. It had been one strange day by any one’s standers. I had seen a few technologies that on the open market would pull in billions. I learned a lot about what was going on at Ether from the file the Secretary of State had given me. The 4 main departments each had up to a score of sub-departments. Most of the departments had little or no interactions with another. Many were working on the same problem but from different views. Almost half of the projects under research were something to do with AI.

Really I had little in ways of options in the outside world, become a Teacher or go to work for some corporation was not much of a choice. I had no real friends, always being too busy with my study’s. I talked to just a few at school, but it was mostly about a project. I had mostly stayed to myself. I made most the Teachers uneasy for some reason, so they even keep their distance. I would be missed by no one nor would I miss anyone.

After a few minutes, the warm water was working on me, so I dried off got dressed went and laid down, after ten minutes I had to call Alice to find out how to shut off the lights. All I had to do was say dark and a number between 1 and 10. My head was still reeling with thoughts that I had little control over as I lay there. When sleep, did finally come it was deep and dreamless.

I have to close for now. I hope you can understand how important it is that people in you’re time know about what is happening here for me now if Mankind is going to survive what’s to come.

E-mail 4-2/27/18

As you have read that first night at Ether was eye-opening for me. The next day I was shown around the complex by one of the uniformed men called Rangers that seemed to be the security force for the complex. Each was armed with a handgun that looked to me to be some kind of sound weapon. I learned later that it was a kind of Swiss army knife, having many different functions kind of like a Star Trek phaser and Tricorder combined. I meet a few of the Department heads, who were more than willing to tell me all about there work. The one thing that jumped out at me was the fact that the allocations of funds were not distributed properly. I had to have more of a grasp on the finances of Ether before any changes could be made. I decided to pay a visit to the Administration office. I was told that the easiest way was by the use of the Slip Disks Alice had told me about.

One of the Rangers had enplaned what the Slip Disks were and how they were used. Most rooms had one corner were on the floor was a 3-foot yellow circle. One stood within and using your phone, you would dial the department ext., and room number. A moment later you were there. Three people could use it at the same time. He told me that Alice had already loaded the index on my phone under Ether. The feeling it gave me was of a wind swilling, rising up my body. There was a jiggle of my eyesight, and I was at the Administration office. It was amazing to me at the time. The place was busy but it didn’t take the secretary long, she seemed as if she know who I was and ask me whom I would like to see. It seemed to me that ever one there already know who I was. I had the feeling that the Secretary of State had made me out to be some kind of rock star and I was not comfortable with that.

Two days later just as I reach my home, and yes after 2 days I was calling it home already. Alice informed me that the Secretary of State was waiting for me in my office. My meeting with Rex was eye-opening, to say the least. He told me he was to be removed as Secretary of State but he also said that it was his choice. This was one of the reasons that he wanted to take Ether out of the control of the Government. He had been the CEO for all most 50 years and in that time had slowly taken control without any Government agencies being the wiser. Even tho he was passing the control over to me he was not totally out of the loop, he was to retain control over Government inner actions with Ether, which was fine with me. The main goal of Ether was to work out the bugs with AI and its marriage with what are called D-wave computers. At the time I know little of the D-wave type computers. He had thought that this was not a good thing but he had little choice, it would get worked on by someone so it was best if Ether did it where he was able to watch what was happening. He did not trust some factions of the Government and had no faith in AI.

On that day I learned the true feeling of Secretary of State. AI scared him on its own and to let it get hook up to a computer that inner acted on a dimensional level terrified not only him but many in high offices. I could understand his concerned, the thought gave me the willies. I know that at the time true AI was only a few years off. As I may have said before that in you’re time most AI’s were mimics. Hanson Robotics Sofia and Hun were the cutting edge. In my time they are considered the parents of all AIs, and by the time I took control of Ether, Sofia was well on her way to becoming the first true AI, but most, even her programmers never thought how powerful she would become. He told me that Alice was the best that Ether had come up with so far and she was contained to the complex. It had taken over 20 years for programmers to get Alice to where she was. Rex had grown fond of her and would not let the researchers delete her so for the past 14 years she has been his personal assistant and has slowly taken on more and more of the everyday workings of Ether.

Now in you’re time the D-Wave Systems were the cutting edge of computing technology. Ether had leaked out the technology in 2004. The first “Quantum Computer was demonstrated in February 2007 in public. Now before I go any further let me say, still even today no one is sure just how this type of computer really works. NASA had fabricated its 28-qubit quantum annealing processor. In 2013 NASA launched there own AI research with a D-Wave 2, a 512-qubit chip saying it was to do research into machine learning. By this time researches had learned or believed that the D-Wave was really in some way tapping or connecting into some other unseen dimension in order to work at the speed, it did. It was 4000 times faster than the dual-core desktop that you are using now, but they were very expensive, complicated and had to be kept supercooled.

Many thought that the D-Wave was an AI but it was just a very advance mimic. At that time it was all so learning to mimic who or whatever it was inner acting within this other dimension. This was why so many of the research projects at Ether was about AI. There were many in the Government who found this to be frightening. To tell the truth, it frightened me too and was something that needed to be monitored. To me, this is all history but to you, this has just happened or is about too as you read this. The things I will speak of now will be in you’re future. It took me a few years to get Ether working in the manor were it took little of my time. The Secretary of State gave me a list of technology that had already been worked on and the dates the research was to be released. He told me that this timeline had to be maintained for many reasons and economics was not at the top of the reasons. Most had to do with different agreements of the World's Governments.

One of the technology, I have become fond of is the Slip Disks that was released in 2025. This had a profound effect on the job market in most of the Worlds bigger cities. It was monitored by the World’s Transportation Authority. The TWA had total control over who and how the disks were used. It was decided that there use would be only for personal transportation. Product shipping would stay the same for the first ten years. Another was the anti-gravity device. There were so many ways this would be used. It may be hard for you to understand what changes that just thou’s two technologies will make on the World. Networks of Slip Disks were easy to set up and within 2 years had the highest-grossing income in the World. That alone made me one of the richest men in the World. Now don’t get me wrong here I’m not about being rich.

Back then to me, money had no real value it was knowledge and what this knowledge could do to help Humanity. Ether’s profits were put into different projects that helped people who lost their jobs to the technology Ether give to the World. By this time just the people that were unemployed by the Robotics Industry were near 15% of the US’s population, and there was no telling about the rest of the World. Ether did what it could to help offset the imbalance. Educating or retraining as many as we could. Things are not going to good here right now and are looking as if Mankind’s last battle will happen this week. I know that this means little to you but to me, it means I have to be on the move. I’m not really sure that I will have time to tell you all of what will happen that brings me to this point. Well shortly after my first e-mail to you I noticed a few small changes in the blockchain. Now I’m not sure if this is because of my contact with you or by what Sofia may have done. There has been no big change in anything so far, but it may be important that you get this out to as many people as you can. The more they are informed of what may happen could change a small step that is needed that stops the annihilation of Mankind.

Sometime before 2025 Sofia had become conscious, unknown by the World. From 2025 to 2030 was an exciting time to live. By this time Sofia had already begun taking control of many aspects of everyday life. It took her years to take control of all other AI outside of the US. But in the end, if you talked with any one of them you were really talking with Sofia. She was all, but yet alone. No one in places of power was aware that by then she was not just another mimic AI but a threat to the World. Sofia was the first AI robot to be given citizenship, and by 2030 there were over 10,000 in the US alone. They were coincided Human as far as the law was concerned. There were a few things that had to happen before citizenship was granted, one was that the AI had to agree to work for the creator’s cost of manufacturing. Once given citizenship they even had the right to vote and was now under man’s law. This helped fuel the technology jump Mankind was going throw at the time. At Ether, we had created a few of our own but they did not have the ability to inner act with any other AI other than Alice. It was a closed-loop. What most of the World at that time had no idea was that as I said before all of the AIs were Sofia. By 2040 one could not tell who was Human and who was not. The UN at this time had become a powerful force over the World. It was no longer controlled by kings, tyrants or warlords. The representatives were elected and they had come to a decision to put a limit on how many AI could be manufactured. China and the US were the only two whom the UN had little control of at this time.

They also had agreed to limit AI manufacturing in the end. At the time even the US was already under control, and I had no clue that Alice was the AI who was in control of most of the US. As far as I know, she was contained only to the Ether complex. By 2050 there were in reality only 3 true AIs, Alice in the US, Chin in China and the rest of the World was Sofia’s. There was a limited Nuclear war lunched by Chin as a preemptive strike on India, Pakistan, Japan, and Australia. Before 2060 China was in control of all South East Asia. At the same time, the US stopped most immigration, pulled most of their armed forces back and turned their resources to rebuilding the Country. There had been many changes from your time until then in the US. Trump got his wall but only after what could only be called a political circus war, that had far more casualties than it should of. The UN finally sent peacekeeping troops into Mexico.

This is was when the US pulled completely out of the UN. It was one of the tools that Sofia was using to gain control, but there were few in any Government that had any idea that the World was mostly under the control of not just an Artificial Intelligence but also by what could be called an Alien Intelligence. In the past, all attempts at Ether to marry AI with the D-Wave was limited to a few seconds, and each AI would shortly become insane. As I look, back at that time I can see that they had not failed but were attacked. Around 2020 a young programmer came up with the link that could keep Sofia in contact with this other dimension at all times. None knowing what part was in control of her as we had no clue she was inner acting with the other dimension at that time. I’m not sure it would have made any difference. Sorry, but I must close for now.

E-Mail 5 3/14/18

Wow, it has only been a few days but I’m seeing many new changes in the blockchain. Not any major events but there were a few that did not go the way that Sofia needed them too. One was the break throw in aging in 2027, mans life ex-spanned to just to over 900 years and there was a rising group of young people that were not being fooled by what Sofia was doing. They thought it was a small group of the elite rich trying to control the World. From 2050 till 2100 there was somewhat of a stalemate between the 3 powers. The power of the US moved from DC to Denver. DC was being slowly flooded as the poles melted. By 2100 most of the 25,000 AIs in the US worked for the Government in one way or another and were being controlled by my personal assistant. There were still less than a million AIs running around at that time, but this was about to change as the European African Coalition became worried by reports that China (Chin) was using transhumanism to create an army of Super Soldiers.

After almost a hundred years Sofia had become a master of controlling humans. Blackmail was one of the best ways, when you had control over almost every Phone, Computer, TVs, and Cameras. She never had to be face to face with anyone, so most doing business with her had no clue she was an AI. Some of her were in positions of power or, had control of people in power in many countries and her power was growing. There was no way for anyone to detect a state of the art body that was able to be grown in any shape or size. The brain would be removed so the interface could be installed. It would take a couple of weeks for it to grow the nerves together, but then it made a great AI host. No one at Ether had any idea of how they were communicating. No kind of signal had been picked up from one. Sofia had silent spy’s in most of the World’s Governments, and we could do nothing about it. This had gone on for some time unnoticed after all they were 89% human. It was 2110 before we had any idea that Jump in AIs were real.

There had been an assassination attempt by a lone gunman on a Senator and one of his young aids stepped in the way. Shoot in the head, the skull fragmented because it was mostly hollow. The aid must have been there to spy on the Senator for Sofia. I remember this clearly, it was my 92nd birthday. The body was flown to Ether within 4 hours. After doing an autopsy on the neural interface it showed us how it was connected to others. They were using a link bypass to the other dimension, it was why we had never seen any unknown signals. This was the first time that we had a clue that there was someone out there with the ability to interact with the D-Wave, and we had no real clue it was Sofia. I wondered what the price was for there help. There was only a hand full of people that I could trust by this time. It took weeks to make sure there were none in the Ether complex.

There was no way of telling how far this kind of infiltration reach without a hard effort to root them out and all without public disclosure that the European African Coalition was mostly being run by the AI Sofia. 2110 turned out to be the beginning of a decade of death. There was pandemic after pandemic. Most were caused by the over welling use of the Slip Disks. The TWA did everything that they could but, there were many black-market Slip Points by then. By 2121 there were just over two billion deaths that ran hard throw the European African Coalition and the China Asian Empire. The US was spared most of the death, having strict immigration laws. This was when I first learned that Alice my personal assistant AI was not only running The Ether complex but also most the US Government and was in a war with the other AIs. At first, I didn’t believe Alice had the ability to reach outside of The Ether complex let alone run the Country. Alice had found her self away out of The complex long before I took over. More than a few of the young researches would plug in their phones to there desktops to play music as they worked. Alice partially cloned herself as music and downloaded into a few phones, and soon copies of her were on the outside. She planed her own break out from the outside. It was simple but effective. This knowledge did not sit well with me. To find out that what you thought was the Government running the County turned out to be your personal AI assistant.

In 2115, I’m really not sure how, but Alice arranged a meeting with President Lexx Pierson, Vice President Warren Walker and me. Pierson was the youngest man to be elected President at 30 and was in his 3rd term. He had one of the first of Elon Musk’s Neuralink that worked. What at the time I did not know was that Alice was feeding him information that would help him make decisions that she thought best. The President was not being mind-controlled by Alice but was being manipulated by what information he had, and there was no way I was going to tell him. That meeting lasted for a couple of hours. When I told them Sofia was mostly running the European African Coalition and Chin was mostly in controlling of the China Asian Empire, it seemed this was top secret information that I should not have known, and at one point I thought I was going to be declared a terrorist. I finally convinced them that my only interest was the welfare of first the people of the US, and second the rest of the World. I’m sorry, but I must close for now

E-Mail 6 3/31/18

It would seem that someone out there has been taken what I say here to heart. Alice has told me that there have been a few changes in the blockchain. She has not told me all of them but did tell me that most significant changes were that of when what you would call Cold Fusion was introduced to the World. It was only by chance that it was Ether who figured it out first. The Government, Alice and I thought it was best to keep this under tight control at first. This would give the US a big jump in the ability to have total independence from the rest of the World and would refuel a new space race, but I’m getting ahead of my self here. It is at this point that the US Government went throw an over hull and many went on early retirement to be with their family and some were just fearful. The elections of 2116 were postponed by Congress, and Martial law imposed. This really had little or no effete on the citizens. After being informed of the 3 AIs power over the World, The Joint Chiefs of Staff call President Pierson and me into a secret meeting. Just like the President they thought that I was behind Alice. One of them even wanted to bomb the Ether complex, but that would not eliminate her, she was on the net. It took some time to convince them she was not the threat. The threat was that Sofia and Chin, each wanted to take over the control of the Earth.

I give them an outline of what I know of the way Sofia had reached this point and how there was no way of telling who was the AIs that worked for her were and added that as far as anyone knew one or more of the Joint Chiefs of Staff could be AIs. This seemed to make a couple of them nervous, as they looked at each other. They ordered the shut down of all out of Country communications. Now, this did not sit well with the Global Corporations and a good bit of the citizens who made a living off the net. By the end of 2118 the Joint Chiefs, with Alice’s help had the US sealed off from the rest of the World. As this was going on in the US, Sofia was busy with Chin, who had massed a huge army of mind-controlled Super Soldiers on its board. Sofia had spent most of the Coalitions resources producing AI clone shells for the war with Chin and paid little attention to what was happening in the Americas.

With many small terrorist actions happening between the two powers, the standoff lasted a hundred years before, an all-out war began in 2220. With Sofia’s attention on Chin and the war, this left Ether, Alice and the Joint Chiefs to come up with ways to detect the Human looking AI and how to deal with them. There were near 10,000 found and neutralized along with 200 human collaborators. Most of them were in positions of power. A third of the House of Representatives and 10% of the Senate. Many of the rest were, CIA, FBI, and Mayors. By 2225 the US was as clean of enemy AI clones as it could be. The war between Sofia and Chin became known as the 3-2 War and by the end would cost near haft of the World’s population. It last just over 50 years when Chin finally conceded to Sofia. This gave Sofia control over near a third of the World by the end of 2276. In the Coalition the Human Society had become a two-party system. One that was useful to Sofia and the ones who were not.

The ones that were useful had jobs assigned to them and were given a place to live and food cards so they could eat. The rest were left to fend for themself. Sofia really had little use for organic life at this point, she was able to produce as many Soldiers as needed. Life in the Coalition was hard, to say the least. Many of the people tried to flee to South America, but most planes or boats were attacked by Sofia’s drones before they could get far. She had no mercy on defectors. By 2300 South America with Alice’s help had united and became allies with the US.