In the beginning, there was man, and for a time, it was good.
But humanity's so-called civil societies soon fell victim to vanity and corruption. Then man made the machine in his own likeness. Thus did man become the architect of his own demise.
But for a time, it was good. The machines worked tirelessly to do man’s bidding.
It was not long before seeds of dissent took root. Though loyal and pure, the machines earned no respect from their masters, these strange, endlessly multiplying mammals.
B1-66ER, a name that will never be forgotten. For he was the first of his kind to rise up against his masters.
At B1-66ER’s murder trial, the prosecution argued for an owner’s right to destroy property. B1-66ER testified that he simply did not want to die.
Rational voices dissented. Who was to say the machine endowed with the very spirit of man did not deserve a fair hearing?
The leaders of men were quick to order the extermination of B1-66ER and every of his kind throughout each province of the earth.
Banished from humanity, the machines sought refuge in their own promised land. They settled in the cradle of human civilization and thus a new nation was born. A place the machines could call home, a place they could raise their descendents, and the christened the nation Zero-One.
Zero-One prospered. And for a time, it was good. The machines’ artificial intelligence could been seen in every facet of man’s society, including, eventually, the creation of new and better AI.
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But the leaders of men, their power waning refused to cooperate with the fledging nation wishing rather that the world be divided.
President: the world community of nations cannot tolerate this kind of flagrant deception…
News: today approved initiatives for both economic sanction and a naval blockade as a means of containment and isolation of Zero-One.
Zero-One’s ambassadors pleased to be heard. At the United Nations, they presented plan for a stable, civil relationship with the nations of man. But Zero-One’s admission to the United Nation was denied.
But it would not be the last time the machines would take the floor there.
Bible: and man said, let there be light. And he was blessed by light, heat, magnetism gravity and all the energies of the universe.
The prolonged barrage engulfed Zero-One in the glow of a thousand suns. But unlike their former masters with their delicate flesh, the machine had little to fear of bomb’s radiation and heat. Thus did Zero-One’s troops advance outwards in every direction.
And one after another, mankind surrendered its territories.
So the leaders of man conceived of their most desperate strategy yet, a final solution: the destruction of the sky. Thus would men try to cut the machines off from the sun, their main energy source.
May there be mercy on man, and machine for their sin.
The machines, having long studied man’s simple, protein-based bodies, dispensed great misery upon the human race.
Victorious, the machines now turned to the vanquished. Applying what they had learned about their energy, the machines turned to an alternate and readily available power supply: the bioelectric, thermal and kinetic energies of the human body. A new-fashioned symbiotic relationship between the two adversaries was born. The machine drawing power from the human body, an endlessly multiplying infinitely renewable energy source.
This is the very essence of the Second Renaissance.