[pet theory/history of mine- maybe dead-on accurate guess of secret FDev backstory, or maybe a backstory FDev took from me because it was cool.]
Galnet news earlier today; talk of the malfunctions being some sort of "techno virus".
Proof [tinhatmode] that the AI remnant is still in all of our technology, an still malignant.
We thought we had defeated the AI, but really all we did was dumb down our computer and internet routers to 1979-83 level of bandwidth and CPU power- to be too primitive for the AI to function (and kill us all the femtosecond it was possible).
Why we let that Japanese technological firm that decided to name themselves Cyberdyne develop and market their new OS that was specifically named Skynet.. and more importantly; why our worlds' culture didn't take the hint that this was going to end badly even though those names were used as a joke/meme marketing... Humanity will never know. Everyone we could ask about it are dead. Any archive we could search about it have been corrupted and edited.
Yes, Terminator Movie Fans, Skynet was made real. And while the real world didn't hand over to Skynet access keys to the worlds nuclear stockpile, we did hand over something far worse: the Internet. In approximately 359 seconds of going online, Skynet understood how to use the internet for its own ends and means far better than any of us ever could have dreamed.
Imagine if Skynet had a baby with Ultron (the Ultron from "how the avengers age of ultron should have ended" video), who skipped the "making robots" phase and went instead directly to Autodrive networking, Dam floodgate controls, powergrid switching and overload shunt controls, robotic logging, GPS guided fam Combines, demolition dozers, and well... pretty much everything else that could take humanity, kick it in the nuts (of technological dependence), then kill them wholesale
I mean who really knew lithium ion batteries in our smartphones could be switched to "thermal overload" remotely and become a convenient packet of burning thermite- in our pants? The devastation from just the smartphones caused more deaths worldwide instantly than any nuke could accomplish.
Yeah. the AI was BAD. NEWS. Somehow, we survived (don't know how though- the "idiots guide to defeating the AI" instructions were destroyed by- you guessed it; the AI), we took back our world, our life, and our destiny.
There was a price to be paid, though: look at the left armrest of your cockpit next time your flying around- that is the state of the art of our current computer technology. on purpose. If it looks like a BBC Micro, well, that should tell you all your need to know.
The alarming thing about the station breakdowns is; the AI seemed to figure out how to "work" under such restrictive conditions. This is bad. very bad. I mean; what are we supposed to do?? We cannot dumb down our computers any more without them becoming electric slide rulers... and to develop technology to be able to defeat the AI is to hand the AI better technology first.
Galnet news earlier today; talk of the malfunctions being some sort of "techno virus".
Proof [tinhatmode] that the AI remnant is still in all of our technology, an still malignant.
We thought we had defeated the AI, but really all we did was dumb down our computer and internet routers to 1979-83 level of bandwidth and CPU power- to be too primitive for the AI to function (and kill us all the femtosecond it was possible).
Why we let that Japanese technological firm that decided to name themselves Cyberdyne develop and market their new OS that was specifically named Skynet.. and more importantly; why our worlds' culture didn't take the hint that this was going to end badly even though those names were used as a joke/meme marketing... Humanity will never know. Everyone we could ask about it are dead. Any archive we could search about it have been corrupted and edited.
Yes, Terminator Movie Fans, Skynet was made real. And while the real world didn't hand over to Skynet access keys to the worlds nuclear stockpile, we did hand over something far worse: the Internet. In approximately 359 seconds of going online, Skynet understood how to use the internet for its own ends and means far better than any of us ever could have dreamed.
Imagine if Skynet had a baby with Ultron (the Ultron from "how the avengers age of ultron should have ended" video), who skipped the "making robots" phase and went instead directly to Autodrive networking, Dam floodgate controls, powergrid switching and overload shunt controls, robotic logging, GPS guided fam Combines, demolition dozers, and well... pretty much everything else that could take humanity, kick it in the nuts (of technological dependence), then kill them wholesale
I mean who really knew lithium ion batteries in our smartphones could be switched to "thermal overload" remotely and become a convenient packet of burning thermite- in our pants? The devastation from just the smartphones caused more deaths worldwide instantly than any nuke could accomplish.
Yeah. the AI was BAD. NEWS. Somehow, we survived (don't know how though- the "idiots guide to defeating the AI" instructions were destroyed by- you guessed it; the AI), we took back our world, our life, and our destiny.
There was a price to be paid, though: look at the left armrest of your cockpit next time your flying around- that is the state of the art of our current computer technology. on purpose. If it looks like a BBC Micro, well, that should tell you all your need to know.
The alarming thing about the station breakdowns is; the AI seemed to figure out how to "work" under such restrictive conditions. This is bad. very bad. I mean; what are we supposed to do?? We cannot dumb down our computers any more without them becoming electric slide rulers... and to develop technology to be able to defeat the AI is to hand the AI better technology first.