The realization came very late when man could, only in hindsight, see his biggest two flaws; that he invented only when the need arose and that he utilized all that he had indiscriminately without any responsibility.
That day brought complete chaos to Earth. Nobody can imagine the condition of the planet when all the life force of the planet stopped. The AtmosCon had stopped working and the weather had started to turn unpleasant. However, with some backup energy left, it could be operated at sub-optimal levels for another 6-8 months. It would take a heavy toll on other energy requirements, but this was the Emergency Code live in operation for the first time since it was envisaged. All other activities were priority 2 under the Code. However, after 6-8 months, AtmosCon would stop working. Soon the weather would become unbearable and then the Earth would become uninhabitable. Our race is in danger…
The advances in the technology are at their peak and man cannot not move a finger on his own. Even thought is left to the machines, MindBelts. Man today is only a decision maker based on the information fed to their brain-minds by these MindBelts. He prides himself as the ultimate decision maker when in reality, the decision is already taken by the MindBelt and is just suggested to man.
A MindBelt is an electronic brain (which comes close to the human brain but still after so many hundreds of thousands of years spent perfecting it, is still not THE thing) attached to the brain of every human being born after the year ALN:20,000 (in pre-historic times, years were measured in B.C. and A.D. That system was changed to the new system many hundreds of thousand years ago). MindBelts do all the thinking for man and are connected to the central brain of the Earth, the MasterMind. Now all this is a history. Nobody had considered making MindBelts a priority 1 along with the AtmosCon…
That day, with all external help ‘dead’, nobody knew what had happened and what to do next. The communication systems collapsed as the only channel available was through the MindBelts which were not working. The aircars had stopped working and there were already huge pileups on the roads. Panicked, people started to come out on the road walking for the first time and did not know what to do. There were confused crowds protesting against no one to nobody. Police were also useless as they themselves had lost their PoliceMinds. Soon riots started…
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