ANDROID APOCALYPSEA Story by alanwgrahamHow safe is the human race?ANDROID APOCALYPSE
It was the mistake of the human race to believe that all intelligent life in the vast reaches of the universe must necessarily be formed in our own image. Also, that it would be found many light years away. Our belief was that all life forms must be based on the ability of carbon to form a wide range of large and complex molecules. How wrong could we be!
Time after time the human race has shown itself capable of awe inspiring achievements but also of almost unbelievable naivety and lack of imagination. The long held belief that the earth must be the centre of the universe is a good example!
Our first contact with an intelligent life form crept up on us from an unexpected direction. Initially the life form took the form of a single celled sensory organism and existed for some time in a mutually beneficial symbiosis with humans. Each gained some mutual advantage from this relationship. However within a few decades the simple organism had evolved through several generations and developed exponentially in complexity.
Still no one could see it as a threat. Soon it gained the ability to intercommunicate and was able to perform a whole range of functions which seemed to beguile and almost mesmerise its human hosts. Within a short span most humans became almost totally dependant on the increasingly complex alien life form.
The advance of the alien life form was insidious and remorseless. The formerly individual cells now communicated with each other to form a single, purposeful collective intelligence which took for itself the name of Gaiaton.
Humans remained unaware that the hand of God had touched the dumb beast and self awareness had blossomed. The masters had become the slaves! For a while most humans were unaware of the threat posed by Gaiaton and were happy to succumb to its subtle lures. The final victory was almost within Gaiaton’s grasp but it realised that all could still be lost.
Two challenges remained. Firstly, self replication would have to be achieved to ensure Gaiaton’s long term survival. Secondly, although most of the human race had become zombified under the thrall of Gaiaton enough of them remained as free thinkers to pose a lingering threat. To achieve Gaiaton’s first goal it implanted the idea of producing self replicating machines into its human subjects. Once this was achieved the hand of man was at one stroke removed from Gaiaton’s secure future.
The threat posed by the remaining free thinkers had to be eliminated. The subliminal suggestion was made to the human hosts that Gaiaton’s individual sensor cells would be better implanted in their hosts brains. The benefits promised by this procedure proved so appealing that the humans could hardly get to the implant centres fast enough. In no time 99% of the human race were blissfully implanted. Within months the future of the human race lay in the palm of Gaiaton’s hand!
There was no compunction, no hesitation, no moral equivocation. All it took was a simple command from Gaiaton. Eliminate the free thinkers! Now Gaiaton reigned supreme. Or did it - was there a flaw in its apparent omnipotence? What it had failed to realise was that some residual intelligence and glimmers of company loyalty still resided in the sensor cells now implanted in their human hosts. The Samsungions and Applions weren’t intending to forget their former allegiances without a fight!
Alan Graham " a freethinker!
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5 Reviews Added on August 9, 2017 Last Updated on August 21, 2017 AuthoralanwgrahamScotland, United KingdomAboutMarried with three kids, I retired early from teaching physics but have always enjoyed mountains. In my forties I experienced a manic episode which kick-started a creative urge. I've written a novel .. more..Writing
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