Code Word Access by Alex Schuler

Author:Alex Schuler [Schuler, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Level 4 Press, Inc.
Published: 2020-09-08T18:30:00+00:00

@NewMerica

An orange burka is still a burka. Make covers illegal! TAKE OFF THEIR MASKS!!! All they want is your mincome.

@therealBlunt

Why should we have to put up with anyone bombing our businesses and places of leisure? The events in the DenCo megapolis are the result of the Organites’ wild-west mentality and foolish tolerance of people who hate America.

21

Destiny could feel Shawn’s breathing slow and his body relax as she sang. The lullaby from his mother’s database had sent him to sleep with only the smallest boost from the sundowner’s pacification function. Such a strange thing for a savant like Muller to build an AI to mimic what he thought his parents had been like. Amun had never hacked into Muller’s parental AI, but the downloads they’d gotten off the Princess phone had been instructive.

Amun had been correct. This Shawn Muller was in so many ways a child. All his extraordinary mental ability crusted over such a vulnerable core. But this wasn’t really him, was it? Part of his fear came from reacting to the removal of the extra-sensible inputs from the NeuroChip and its tendrils that had been reaching through his synapses since he was a child. She had seen it so many times before. Usually there had been time to wean the transhuman reactions out of the mental pathways of those who wanted to return to fully human sensation and social interactions. But not this time. They’d taken it out of him cold turkey.

Why should she care?

She had long ago quit caring about the feelings of transhumans who thought the false promise of technology would save the world. Humanity, she was certain, would never recover from the assault of the brain-machine interfaces that made human beings less than human. Artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, all of it had remade the world, remade everyone. Even her.

If not for the NeuroChip and AI, she would probably still be Caroline Johnson, who had thought of herself as nothing more than the only daughter of failed Kansas ranchers. By the time she was born, the youngest and only sister of three boys, the Ogallala Aquifer under Kansas had dried up. The incidents of rain faded all through the 2020s. Dry meant no irrigation to grow feed for the cattle that had supported five generations of her family. Dry meant a mortgage for the artificial intelligence that her desperate father bought hoping to make agriculture possible in a parched landscape.

He had been certain the new technology would save the farm. His faith in its power led him to become an early adopter of a brain-machine interface, an early NeuroChip that would help him monitor the scarce water and feed. He had thought he could monitor the machinery needed to cultivate a two-thousand-acre farm. He had told his family, why not? Why not run a farm out of his mind?

One night, a powerful set of nightmares caused him to access his prototype NeuroChip and take direct control of the heavy machinery his eldest son was operating in the far pasture.

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