The last thing Jim remembered was Ella telling him to prepare himself for the simulation that would begin in 5 minutes. After that, the gel-cells started giving his body the compression massage Bart had mentioned, and he fell asleep. Jim Kraft; oblivious to Bart and Roger frantically trying to figure […]
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She waited. She contemplated. Not in the minutes and seconds her creators experienced, but in fractions of a second. She processed data so fast that instead of measuring how many seconds it took for her to get something done, one measured how much she got done in one second. Depending […]
The blue status bar on the technologist’s computer started its journey moving from left to right stopping when the indicator read 100%. Jim would be opening his eyes to a new world right about now. A world with outcomes largely controlled by Ella, an AI Dungeon Master all things considered. […]
Jim settled himself and watched as the blue gel-cells above him lowered until the top of the pod closed locks clicking securing itself to its bottom half. A moment later, a quiet hum and whirring could be heard as the micro-bots began to map his body. The gel lining started […]
“What am I looking at?” They stood in a room located two floors below ground level in Spelek Technologies’ research and development branch. This section of the facility was under high security, and all access was strictly controlled. “Mr. Kraft, you are looking at the future, made possible by the […]
At the desk of Jim Kraft Pronounced “skate,” but spelled s-k-a-i-t, it stood for Skar-Kraft-Artificial-Intelligence Tether. The SK8 was just one of the amazing pieces of technology coming out of SKARKRAFT Industries. Before auxiliary AI came online in 2023, the SK8 generation one (or simply gen 1) was a pair […]
“Good morning everyone, sorry I’m late.” Jim walked into a meeting already underway. Senior members of SKARKRAFT Industries sat arrayed around a large round table, previous discussions now muted. The boardroom was a cross between a joke and a shared childhood admiration of Jim and Nathaniel Skarsgard. Centered in a […]
Jim sat in his favorite worn leather chair and gazed outside, content. By all rights he should be exhausted, still in bed from the hours and days of work he had been putting himself through, but he wasn’t. Jim was content. For the last 52 hours straight, Jim had been […]