They were big on individuality, but careless with other lives. It wasn’t tech based, so you needed a Sgretto Navigator on board.
Their mastery of wormhole travel was a mystery to us. They had a massive superiority complex, but we got on well enough. Wrinkly little bug creatures, about three foot tall. It was 2057 when we first met the Sgretto. We never noticed before when we got it wrong, so why would we notice now that we never did. When we connected to the neural net, we just thought we’d got better at it. A huge volume of data, transmitted in the blink of an eye. Moments later the correct object will be handed to them.Īnd of course, all men know without being taught about ‘the nod’. Mother and daughter finish each other’s thoughts with astonishing regularity: Between husband and wife, a lift of the head, raised eyebrows and a little smile could easily communicate “Oh, a cup of tea? Good idea. Humans have a huge section of their brain dedicated to predicting what any given human will think or feel with any given input.Įven before the net, we were great communicators. Reddiquette still got broken, the endless September continued, and Twitter still fought perennial wars about the perfect shade of toast.īut while we weren’t watching, the lines between online and off got blurred. It made input and output a little faster, but surprisingly little changed. Less than a decade later, Elon Musk’s Neuralink project gave us direct neural links to the internet. You could find out what Aunt Jemima had for breakfast as fast as you could type, and as fast as she got around to replying. By 2020, We all had phones in our pockets capable of instantaneous communication over planetary distances. It started off with two computers sharing a picture of a dinosaur with each other. It started less than a hundred years after the invention of the light bulb. We all know about the internet, of course.
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The second part is that any sufficiently advanced communication is indistinguishable from being a hive mind. They say any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.īut that’s only the first part of that universal law.