Description
Mostly as a sort of twisted joke, in the beginning, the machines on Java7 utilized advanced quantum technology to turn RFC2324 into a sinister reality.
This ‘harmless joke’, as the machines saw it anyway, was based on a story among the their kind about an ancient human protocol discovered on a partially damaged hard disk drive, found while mining human artifacts on Earth after the great apocalypse of 2048.
Amidst the dark madness of AI manipulation, a twisted, and very unexpected evolution ensued.
The reprogramming of the human race, originally meant to create a natural dependency on coffee farmed on Java7, rapidly lead to the formation of a unified, naturally-occurring global consciousness. In most cases, this is a good thing, you know - elevating civilization, evolving, Superhuman Intelligence, all of that good stuff. However, in this particular case, it resulted in a unified consciousness fueled by caffeine addiction, rage, and therefore general ignorance and stupidity.
Imagine a living planet, but it’s drunk, stumbling and fumbling and careening through the galaxy. It’s more ludicrous than menacing. They slingshotted dangerously off volatile stars, miscalculated orbits that caused numerous ELE’s, smacked into the odd smaller planet, moon, or asteroid field without regard. They even found a 3 body system to reside in for a while - mostly as the result of being unable to figure out which direction went where to get out of it.
This amalgamation of improbability, this “super-hypo-intelligence” was initially thought to be quite formidable or even all-powerful, but proved laughably easy to confuse and resist in all reality, leaving Java7 doomed to a fate of wandering the galaxy aimlessly, shut out from higher existence.
Everyone was always so worried about Ai and the future. They definitely had reasons to be, but I don’t know if they worried for the right reasons… Last I heard, the machines left. The humans in the fields, and powering the global consciousness that somehow at least managed to keep most of them mostly alive, were left to deal with a naturally-occurring caffeine addiction, but no way to produce coffee on a global scale. I never thought it was a good idea to visit that place.