Artemis Unveiled by Jason Reza Jorjani

Author:Jason Reza Jorjani [Jorjani, Jason Reza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sci-fi, prometheism
ISBN: 9781915755186
Publisher: Arktos Media Ltd.
Published: 2023-04-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Promethean Superbia

As the single largest concentration of nodes in our blockchain network, Iran, considered a territory and a market, had an economy that rivaled the socialistic one strictly managed by the United Nations. An alternate economy that disregarded national borders and international banking, and that was based on secure, private, and stable cryptocurrency exchanges combined with the 3-D printing of digitally delivered products (including 3-D-printed pharmaceuticals of every kind). In time, it also became an economy backed by the tremendous capital generated from our mining operations in the asteroid belt.

Mining for precious metals and valuable elements took place while we hollowed out large asteroids in the belt, such as Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas. We reinforced their rocky surfaces with a nanomesh of metamaterials and lodged ZPE-powered cylindrical stations inside them to serve as colonies and industrial centers. All the while, the Ashuras set up a blockade with their saucers and delta-shaped warships to defend us from Olympian attacks. A few got through and made martyrs of many of the early settlers in the belt, but, by and large, the Ashuras had our back while we worked and until we could hold our own. That was sometime in the 2070s.

By then, a vast infrastructure had been built, extending from submarine cities and seasteads on Earth and subterranean facilities inside the three mountain ranges of Iran to colonies within half a dozen asteroids, from which we pushed on further, fielding ZPE-powered missions to start colonizing the Oort Cloud. It was as we began to deploy increasingly exotic technologies to render habitable these comets on the outermost rim of our solar system that our piratical Promethean society really began to gel. The Olympians and their Traditionalist flock of Terrans saw it as superbia, but in our eyes it was, and is, positively Utopian.

Certain technologies, such as Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, became integral to the fabric of our society insofar as they served to encompass disparate locales into a single cyberspace that blended seamlessly into physical space. We already used both VR and AR for communications between people living inside Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and other asteroids. But once we began to build habitats within many more of the much smaller comets in the Oort Cloud, interlinking these abodes through AR and VR helped to reinforce the social fabric and commonality of culture across these colonies. People could roam the walkways, atriums, and plazas of comets other than the one that they were living in and virtually attend gatherings there in a fairly immersive manner. Of course, VR and AR are also used extensively in our educational system, based on the principle that we learn by doing. This has largely replaced book learning and more theoretical approaches. What little “book learning” is left to augment hands-on experience and training takes place through the use of a cybernetic neural link that rapidly downloads information into a student’s brain.

Another consequence of the widespread use of AR and VR is that experiences have come to be far more valued than the possession of things.

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