9/23/2024
Due to family medical issues, Requiem is on indefinite hiatus.
An elderly family member of ours took a bad fall on Labor Day night, and we’ve been dealing with the aftermath ever since. Hopefully, things will get sorted out, but as of right now, doing a daily comic is not something my schedule can allow.
Sorry to have this happen, but as everyone knows, real life comes first….and at least we don’t have too many running storylines on the backburner.
Educational General Academic Research Unit aka “Edgar” is part of the first production line of non-limited Artificial Intelligence’s. He is currently one of the House Tindal researchers, and is Professor Gage’s second-in-command. Also one of the members of the Crystal One development team.
House Tindal. Physicist, Head of the Crystal One development team and all around curious man. A late term cancer patient, Dr. Gage heads out to Bellisarius Territory to settle his own curiosity about some flaws in the eyewitness reports. He now finds himself spending the last days of his life with his reformed team of Crystal One scientists in an attempt to prevent the literal end of the world.
Because it’s inconvenient for you? Could it be there weren’t enough people paying attention? (or enough people TO pay attention) Maybe, just maybe the tech is/was too much for humanity to handle?
My guess is that there were too many megalomaniacs among the “first wave” and their plots are still running. The best plans are those that will outlive you, after all.
Equally plausible: … In the 7000 odd years since the upload, the tower AIs have outgrown all trace of their original programming and are acting without regard to humanity to protect themself (we need better pronouns for composite entities!) from the damage to the local continuum caused by the upload.
My guess is that there were too many megalomaniacs among the “first wave” and their plots are still running. The best plans are those that will outlive you, after all.