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Chapter 7 - Fixing humanity and the world

Chapter 7 - Fixing humanity and the world

After this event, the world returned to its usual routine. At the same time, Tidanos started and made people all over the world start working on his projects. Reproductive technology was among those things that started to be developed. It was something that had never been fully developed before as humanity was very opposed to it in the previous timelines, which led to him developing it here and now instead. It had only been partly developed in the early stages. It was very difficult due to the governments and leaders, people in general and especially the 9 psycho agents standing in his way.

As it was the first time he was able to bring back modern technology, he wasn’t able to bring back anything but the absolute basics. Using their advanced AI and technology from the future it took a few years to make the pre-birth development pod and only a few months to find a good replacement for breast milk. The breast milk replacement was immediately made publicly available but not yet mandatory. Due to the breast milk production that begins every time a woman gets a child, it wasn’t scheduled to be mandatory until technology took over women’s job of childbearing. After it was made however, it became mandatory. But as they no longer produce breast milk, there was no way they could feed the babies without it anyway.

As for making stem cells artificially and being able to freely modify them, the process took significantly longer. With just the pre-birth development stages machine they started the “semi technological reproduction” as he called it. Using mind control and announcements, they made people worldwide in developed countries start such programs. Those with the best traits were then selected and using advanced data analyses and mind control they now also hindered people from reproducing in natural ways. All this resulted in the new generation of people being born, turning into a super breed of humans that was much more healthy, less troublesome, more calm, crying and screaming less and overall being less sad, was smarter and developed much faster, etc. Not only were the lives of the new generation much better, their superior traits made life easier for those taking care of them as well. Public child care programs were put in place to raise them properly and give them greater opportunities than those born before them.

By means of mind control the caretakers focused on developing them instead of entertaining them, like adults previously were so overly focused on. From birth, developing themselves was basically the only thing the children did. He also made sure to make it mandatory for all new people being born to learn a specific global language. This was so that all of them would be able to understand each other. He later planned on removing all the other languages from public use, when they were no longer necessary. Other than being stored in historical archives for safekeeping, they were going to disappear from the world.

After some decades an artificial source of embryonic stem cells were properly established as well as a method to easily engineer stem cells in the ways necessary to start the next stage of technological reproduction. Their techniques and technology not only allowed quick gene editing but a basic version of complete cell restructuring. As people were now being reproduced in this way, they only needed to study people for the selection of the best traits with some variation of course. They did not intervene where they still didn’t know what kinds of traits were the best, for example. They also did it in a way that gave room to a wide genetic diversity among humans.

As a result, it could be seen that the newer generations were much more talented and capable, and didn't at all have the same mental health issues and emotional outbursts as the previous ones. They required less maintenance as they weren’t as rebellious. They were much more hopeful for the future and also held the mindset and opinions that they had been programmed with through mind manipulation. Even though mind manipulation was something they had lived with all their lives, it was not something that stopped them from living fulfilling and prosperous lives, but quite the contrary was something that helped them do so. Their futures were much more promising than those before them. Even the “failures” among the new generation could at worst only be seen as less talented, but people that could be classified as disabled or handicapped didn’t exist among them.

As for the “replacing and getting rid of hostile non-human organisms project”, they had in less than a decade removed all need for animal products and replaced them with artificial ones and ones made from plants. The world population was now also 100 % loyal to a 100 % animal product free diet, in large part thanks to the future mind manipulation tech. It was a diet that was properly optimized and one that gave their bodies everything they needed, if they ate properly. Other than significantly improving their health overall it also significantly increased their mental and emotional stability, making them significantly easier to handle compared to before.

He had also made sure to develop several “ecosystem stabilizers” as he called them, essentially animal-like robots that worked as top predators in the animal kingdom. As he deployed them in the wild they were now the living nightmares of the creatures usually appearing in people’s nightmares. Having earlier been plagued by nightmares of all kinds of animal creatures coming after and hunting him, Tidanos definitely enjoyed giving them a taste of their own terror. They of course had other tools and other ecosystem stabilizers to replace certain things they removed from nature and also had satellite systems and monitoring AI controlling and keeping them in check.

Before he let them loose and activated them to decrease animal population, he made sure to get the relevant samples from them as well as all plants in form of seeds and cells and stored them at a specific secured location on earth, deep underground. This was to make sure not even a nuclear strike could destroy them. This project was to ensure they could later be revived, if their disappearance were revealed to be a problem. Also, with the reproductive technology they now possessed and that was currently being developed, they could probably soon, with a bit of modification of course, be used for all kinds of animals as well. If de-extinction of a certain species would ever be needed, it would be relatively easy to make it happen. This was the reason Tidanos wasn’t afraid to exterminate all kinds of animals and organisms, left and right.

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He, together with his fellow 9 future minds, had used the future supercomputers to make world simulations to find practical ways to solve the problems that could arise from the mass extermination and to find ways to keep things in balance. All to make humanity non dependent on the creatures of the animal kingdom and other organisms. One of the things they did was, for example, to reengineer certain plants to have them practice reverse photosynthesis, for the time when that would become relevant as well as other types of non animal organisms that could stabilize nature in other ways. All that the data showed was and could be necessary they made sure to find replacements for as they had started exterminating a lot of different animals and many organisms of other types that were troublesome for one reason or another.

In the following decades, it was shown how vastly superior the new humans were. Having the previous elites not even be worthy of being called average in the new era that came about, well except for beauty. But as the new humans that came along almost had a complete apathy for beauty, sensuality and sexual activities, it didn’t really bother them. Everyone were more or less on the same mediocre beauty level and as there weren’t any of them that were either ugly or beautiful. No one was bothered by or paid much attention to it, as being attractive wasn’t something that they valued that much but rather to be presentable.

Their interest in sensual things were so miniscule that scandal news had gone out of business and even the worst things they did weren’t even close to be scandalous. The worst things that appeared in news about famous people of the newer generations were things like people coming late to work or consuming meaningless products like coffee and gum. Even the most offensive acts were more than “child friendly content”, as compared to the standards before Tidanos took over. In the new generations there were now no longer suicide, bullying or any larger divisons. People of the opposite sexes were no longer divided and things like abuse didn’t exist among those people. No matter the time of day or where you traveled in the world, you could be safe with all the new humans wherever you went. As all of them had one common language, they also didn’t have to worry about language barriers.

The older generations, however, were strictly monitored to make sure they didn’t get any funny ideas. The younger generations were also far superior in intelligence to the old ones. The newest among them had no one below 140 iq. It was predicted that the average iq of the new people would soon surpass 200 iq, resulting in the old humans, except for a few professors, professionals and experts, being practically unneeded for intellectual tasks and societal development. Thanks to these things and the fact that people all over the world were so highly focused on technological development, largely due to yours truly’s mind manipulation, the technological and scientific development went many times faster than it had done in any of the previous timelines that Tidanos could remember. They already had things like fusion energy solved and powering the electric grids. Things like protecting the environment were nothing more than a walk in the park at this point and that sector had mostly shifted to start working on terraforming technologies instead.

They had commercial quantum computers and their own version of humanoid robots and advanced AI able to do things like self-driving and many intellectual tasks only humans could do before. They were also one of the reasons the pre technological reproduction generations weren’t needed other than for things like trials and testing of different kinds of products, body improvement and life extension research and development. They also made great improvements thanks to these efforts, being able to change and improve them to be in line with Tidanos vision for the future humans. It was also because he himself didn’t want to die that he focused on this. As someone who had lived for so long, death was now something truly forreign to him and not something he wanted to gamble with.

Compared to your average joe atheist who thought people were eternally dead after dying, he didn’t believe in death in such a simple, non-religious way. According to his understanding a dead creature was simply a non functioning organism that had stopped working. He also thought that “bringing someone back from the dead'' was also nothing more than being able to repair and restart it, just like one would with a machine. According to his theories that was all it took to revive someone.

He thought that when someone died, whatever quantum/particle/wave or whatever thing that made a person the individual that experienced themselves being conscious and living in a certain body, would, just like all other particles and energy that according to the current knowledge of the universe which cannot be created or destroyed, continue its journey in unawareness. Just like any other particle it could either stay in the body if it was preserved or be detached if the body was damaged enough. From there all kinds of things could happen to it while the individual that was it was unaware. All from being launched into space and traveling through the cosmos till the end of the universe, to just rejoining the ecosystem or perhaps be buried far down into the ground or maybe something else entirely for all he knew.

For example, he thought that it was possible if humans made advanced enough machines with a structure for consciousness similar to animals, that it was possible for a person’s particle, if it landed in the right place, to experience the world as it now was that machine. For this reason, what he feared was not being unconscious, losing his life or having his fundamental particle essence destroyed and returning to the void of nothingness or not having a body. It was that the entity in the universe that was him could end up becoming part of a new conscious being after a while, one which might not be all that great. To live a new life, the life of a naive, stupid and ignorant being that could end up suffering a lot, was not something he was willing to do. If that happened he wouldn’t have all the valuable knowledge he had amassed to defend and protect himself from misery, like he had in this time-loop-like life of his.

If it weren’t for this thought as well as the knowledge of time travel, he would have committed suicide a long time ago. After all the messed up things he had seen and the seemingly hopeless times he had gone through, he no longer had any other reason to keep himself going. He didn’t trust living beings for a moment, not even himself. Even if he knew that things would become a lot better now and that the new humans were soon going to be the only conscious beings on the planet and thus the chance of having a miserable life even if he became a new sentient creature was extremely unlikely, he refused to gamble with his existence as long as he had a choice not to do so. This was especially true as he had seen many of the darkest parts of the world. By staying alive he could watch over himself and be able to make sure that no such thing happened to him.