Synopsis
The year is 2220, a time when governments and nation-states are slowly becoming a thing of the past. Instead, all prominent parts of human society are now organizing around the commands of three great Artificial Intelligences, owned and operated by the world's largest corporation. World peace has been achieved, and the very word 'politics' has disappeared from people's lips. Religion has largely disappeared, replaced in some parts by worshipping of the great AIs, but mostly substituted by a devotion to material goods and faith in the market.
There is now a general consensus that the best form of government has been found. No, it is not democracy, nor is it autocracy or oligarchy. Instead, it is technocracy - rule by the learned, the intelligent, and the skilled. And who are more learned, intelligent, and skilled than the great AIs? Exactly, no one. The AIs will correct some market failures once in a while, but shall otherwise let the market be free. After all, the freer the market, the freer the people.
Some may question how society advanced to this stage, but that is all they will do - question. Because they will not find answers, for history is no longer taught anywhere. After all, it is not a practical subject. One cannot get a decently paying job with a history degree. Society doesn't have any time for people to idly ponder about the past. No, this is a practical society of practical people: engineers, doctors, lawyers, developers, managers, bankers, soldiers, and the such.
My name is Aiden Scivit and I used to be one such practical man: minding my own business, doing my job, with the faith that hard work will always be rewarded by the market...and that politics and philosophy were things thought of by idly people who leech off society. But this all changed, and here is my story, my history. Just because the stories of ages long past have been erased, does not mean that a brand new beginning cannot be created.
The story is already finished but I still need to do some editing so a chapter should be released each day for a month. It is a bit political, as you can probably tell by the introduction, so there is that (it will low-key read like a philosophy dump 10% of the time, so really it's like Atlas Shrugged but liberal and worse lol). Also, I actually wrote this in grade 10 as part of my MYP Personal Project, and recently touched up on it for online publication.
Finally, if you find the writing style passable and are interested in my other works, check out the one in the link below. It is a fantasy set in the Ancient Greek world, and is completed and uploaded in full: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/35099/the-oresteia-modernized
Table of Contents
- 11: Some call it Exposition, I call it Worldbuilding2024-11-13
- 22: Getting Fired while Stuck in Traffic2024-11-13
- 33: A Dodgy Message2024-11-13
- 44: Operation Details2024-11-13
- 55: A Dodgy Message Indeed2024-11-13
- 66: The Dark Zone2024-11-13
- 77: To Put Things Into Perspective2024-11-13
- 88: Freezing2024-11-13
- 99: The Troubles of Being Rich2024-11-13
- 1010: The Troubles of Family2024-11-13
- 1111: A Lead2024-11-13
- 1212: A Confrontation Gone Wrong2024-11-13
- 1313: A Plan2024-11-13
- 1414: A Moment of Reflection2024-11-13
- 1515: A Look at the CEO2024-11-13
- 1616: A Leak2024-11-13
- 1717: Meeting the HLF2024-11-13
- 1818: Inner Turmoil2024-11-13
- 1919: Landing and Waiting2024-11-13
- 2020: Combat2024-11-13
- 2121: The Professor2024-11-13
- 2222: A Theory of Justice2024-11-13
- 2323: A Plan of Infiltration2024-11-13
- 2424: Mission Impossible2024-11-13
- 2525: The Final Chapter2024-11-13