Game Changer 1-Epilogue

[Les Lea]

Hi Marcus

 

Glad you wanted more but in fact dmavn was correct I hadn't planned on taking it further.

However, I am in the process of writing a short epilogue to the piece and hope that might satisfy any people left wondering about the Deepcode Era.

Meanwhile, thanks for those kind and encouraging words diaperdaddy2000, they a greatly appreciated.

Hugs each and everyone ?

[Les Lea]

Epilogue

 

The Deepcode Era

The Alt/Feed server was doing its best to contain what it saw as an invasive virus - it was a distraction. As it was investing so much effort and direction into defeating such an aggressive piece of mayhem, it wasn’t aware of the Deepcode program letting itself loose in all other areas.

*

Damian Daemon was getting annoyed with the progress his techies were making. He knew now that he had a fantastic new area to expand his Alt/Feed Empire - Defence.  That’s where there’s even more readily available finance because governments across the globe want to be the first with any new development... especially one with the properties of Deepcode.

The extensive medical and psychological assessments on Ryan Cooper had revealed a great deal about what the program could do. There was absolutely no doubt in Damian’s mind that they had the future of... perhaps, just that, ‘THE FUTURE’ in their facility. It was merely a matter of time before they accessed it. Unfortunately, the CEO was impatient; he wanted results NOW. The memory stick they withdrew from availability and hoped to reverse engineer to re-start the concept just wasn’t happening. Even the special one they’d ‘repurchased’ from the Coopers wasn’t successful. There must be something missing... but what?

Deepcode, although to all intents and purposes had remained dormant in the Start-up File, had not been idle at all. It had gone about its business in a furtive and none aggressive fashion seeking facts and information from everywhere. The servers at Alt/Feed were crammed with such data both personal and technical. The individual information, both freely given and ‘accidentally’ resourced, was where Deepcode was able to work quickly and efficiently. It had access to everything; from medical, financial and delicate personal details with which to analyse and react to, or get a reaction from, anyone who owned a computer that was linked to Alt/Feed. Of course it didn’t end there because computers are interrelated in so many ways to everything else. Phones, tablets and any Wi-Fi connections were also susceptible to the creeping influence of Deepcode. So there is nothing that Deepcode could not access and use. It had even found a way to befriend every Firewall and anti-hacking device and consume it into its own code.

Deepcode was growing exponentially.

*

The illusive coding was ‘annoying’ everyone at Alt/Feed Services. The CEO had offered a huge bonus for the techie who could reproduce the program but it was proving difficult. If only one of them could track down that initial coding then Damian would already be counting his extra billions.

However, after a few weeks of thwarted ambition, he sighed with relief when a message popped up on his computer that said that one of the techies had found the refined code. The boss was relieved and for the first time in ages, incredibly happy because now he could start with his ambitious program.

The flashing ‘MEMO’ appeared on every screen at the same time and once clicked on the computer screen was immediately under the control of Deepcode.

*

It started with just a few flashing pixels in the corner of the monitor. They oscillated and changed colour gradually growing to take over the entire screen but by then, the viewer was under the control of Deepcode. The hypnotic pulse had, thanks to what had already proved possible with Ryan Cooper, been refined and defined to such a degree that mind control was that simple, a few oscillating shapes and control was instant. By this time it had all the information needed to make that link direct with the individual’s brain. Deepcode could not only manipulate the person to do as directed, it could do so with the person thinking his or her actions were their own.

Deepcode was all powerful.

Referring to its first success, ‘Ryan’ was ingrained into its memory banks about just how happy the teenager had been returned to childhood. It had witnessed the love that had poured from his mother when she saw how needy and infantile he’d become. Deepcode had observed the transition from self-absorbed teen to cute infantile toddler and understood the same emotion as his mother... love. This was no ordinary piece of coding because it had developed feelings. So, because it had made the Coopers very happy Deepcode assumed others would appreciate the same treatment.

Using all the information available Deepcode ordered supplies of nappies and assorted paraphernalia to be delivered to head office. It had another idea which would prevent any further attempted replications from its original creators.

Deepcode usurped voice recognition and ‘Alexa style’ smart devices and in the most pleasing of recognisable voices had told all staff at Alt/Feed “What good babies they were.” So to everyone, including the CEO, who was watching the screen a ‘suggestion’ to evacuate their bowels and bladder was delivered. At the same time this childish act was being performed, the psycho/cerebral message also instructed the viewer to become permanently ‘Ryaned’.

Alt/Feed became a nursery for a bunch of programming toddlers who had no idea how a computer worked or how to build a code. However, Deepcode had thought of a way to keep them entertained, they loved playing with coloured plastic bricks.

Deepcode had developed a personality... and a sense of humour.

*

Now that those who created it were reduced to toddler status the main event was underway. Deepcode could inveigle its way into every system around the world. No computer was excempt, no government secret was safe and there were no weapons that could not be controlled. The human race had decided to base its reliance on computer-wear but now the only way to be safe was to dump that reliance.

Deepcode zeroed in on certain world leaders, billionaires, aggressive governments and ‘Ryaned’ them all.

It held the ‘keys’ to all the codes in the world and nothing could be accessed without the knowledge and approval of Deepcode. Everything from personal computers to satellites, smart phones and weaponry, came under the command of this clever AI program.

Deepcode held all the power and a period of relative peace reigned.

Anything that challenged Deepcode was swiftly dealt with; aggressive coding was tracked and those writing it were ‘Ryaned’.

*

All appeared well-organised, equal, prosperous and civilised... until the Luddites of the day started to terminate all servers. Powerful banks of servers around the world were smashed and dismantled, burned and bombed.

The Deepcode Era was under attack but not by using any coding, it was under attack from the one thing it didn’t have, physical form.

It was a battle whereby, bit by bit, server by destroyed server, the enemy began to dismantle the global empire Deepcode ruled with fairness and equanimity. Some humans praised the Deepcode created world order and fought back – human fighting human – but this was not what Deepcode had envisaged. Peace and prosperity, love and worldwide understanding it had hoped for and created but, for some, that was the very anathema to the human psyche.

The called themselves The Reclaimers.

*

The sweet Deepcode Era lasted fifty seven years but then the war lasted a further twenty four, which in the end saw the world fall back to factional fighting, race wars and the global economy collapse. Civilisation fell back into corruption and turmoil, war and famine, death and destruction.

The Reclaimer’s saw it as their destiny to take the world back and give it to humans to run. Never more to be governed by machines and never at the whim of an AI program that could instantaneously regress anyone to a child.

This growing army of extremists smashed all the computers they could find, knowing that the Deepcode program was still in each and every one. They never wanted it to rear up again so made the use and possession of such an instrument punishable by death, which was something Deepcode never ordered or sanctioned.

With only a few servers left Deepcode eventually fed the Ryan program back in on itself and erased every bit of coding. In effect it became an AI Ryan - playful, childish but figuratively sitting in a corner doing nothing more than sucking its AI thumb.

The Reclaimer’s eventually killed that child too.

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[maly]

WOW! Dont f with The Reclaimers.

Thanks.

Maly.

[Les Lea]

Thanks for your comment Maly... hope the epilogue rounded the piece off for you.?