Project Shenzhen by Erik Hamre

Author:Erik Hamre [Hamre, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

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Chin-Yee gazed at the snowflakes clouding his view of the data centre. Nature was such an impressive creator. Even a simple thing like snowflakes had fractal-like properties. He walked closer. The weather was getting worse. It was claimed that when Oppenheimer observed the first nuclear bomb detonation, a Hindu scripture ran through his head: “Now I become death, the destroyer of worlds.” For Chin-Yee, it was the opposite image that came to mind: “Now I become Life, the creator of worlds,” he said out aloud. It felt appropriate to document such a profound statement, so he had made sure to invite his secretary and a soldier to witness his “spontaneous” epiphany. In a hundred years, they would be making movies and writing songs about Chin-Yee and what he had achieved. And that should colour his actions from now on. When he had lived in the US, he had once attended a leadership seminar where the self-help slash management coach had told the audience to live their lives as if they were the hero in their own action movie. “If you view your life like a movie continuously being recorded, lazy choices like choosing to slouch on the couch instead of pulling an all-nighter to fix your problems at work become easy. Always do what you would have wanted the hero on the screen to do in a similar situation.” It was a silly American self-help cliche, concocted by the coach, who despite never having achieved success on his own had made a lifestyle business out of lecturing others. Regardless of how ridiculous Chin-Yee had thought the seminar was back then, it was now abundantly clear that Chin-Yee’s life was indeed a movie being recorded. His achievements would be up there with the great explorers and inventors of the last centuries. For the first time in Earth’s history, an artificial life-form was being created. Unbound by nature’s restrictions and fully controlled by China and Chin-Yee. “I need the room,” he said and the secretary and the soldier promptly exited. They had served their purpose. What Chin-Yee needed to do was anticipate the consequences of this recent development. Eight Mountains was a thirty-year project. Nobody would be expecting results this early.

And that wasn’t all good news. It was what had spooked Dr. Zhu.

Up until now, Chin-Yee hadn’t been any threat to the powers in Beijing.

But if it looked like the project could be successful, decades before originally planned, and in the middle of a purge in Beijing, the entire picture changed.

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