14/04/2021
Can you write a few speculative lines about the future? Like this -
The Year is 2071, and Professor Malkovich is addressing a small and rather off-beat lecture hall of privileged students, all children from the wealthy elite Cartel Families.
“...the superlative AI system we are all well-acquainted with today, which has taken humanity out of its flawed natural biologically-attained data-sets and inefficient idiosyncratic ways, has also provided a strange and unexpected share of its own paradoxic and mysterious, possibly even mystical – benefits.
In 2035, I entered an AI-developed cryogenic facility, and when further new advancements were next made, I was awakened by the AI control system computers, from a state of suspended biological existence, to be greeted by medical provisioning which sees me able to extend my life, its vigour, and potentially now able to reach the years reputedly, of the Biblical Methuselah.”
Gasps in the audience.