The Continuation (of death HAHAHA)

The shortest book in the world what is this. I need help.

I have to remind myself I’m not in a dream.
I read once that if you’re dreaming, you can’t remember how you got somewhere.
Of course, I don’t know when “once” was anymore. All I know is that I got out of the hospital a couple days ago. No explanation why I was there. No explanation what happened to this place.
Oh, and the minor fact that I’ve been asleep for fifty years.
Fif-ty.
And in case you think I misspelled that, F. I. F. T. Y.
I should be dead.
I should be dead.
What the hell?
I’m not supposed to live this long. Why am I still alive? They tell me that I was kept in a coma in a black hole, to keep me from aging. Basically they recovered all the information that makes me me.
Why?
Was I so important that they had to break apart my life? The phone rings. Or I guess, not the phone. The bloody holograph that is hanging in front of my nose. I start to reach towards it to answer it, but my brain beats me to it.
Is that how I explain it?
Evidently I have a computer chip inserted in my brain. I scheduled its removal in a few days.
No thank you, I don’t want a computer in my brain. I want to learn things, thank you. Maybe when I get more adjusted, I’ll reinsert it. IF I get adjusted.
Doubtful.
Anyway, it sends a signal to the holograph, which automatically answers the incoming call.
Another thing I hate about this new world. If I had been able to answer it by touching the holograph, I may have chosen not to answer this call. Maybe I wouldn’t have heard what they told me.
Because, as usual, it’s bad news.
All my friends are dead.
All my relatives are dead.
Oh, and another thing.
Everyone hates me.
Wow.
Then the hospital hangs up.
Not like they’re apologizing for waiting weeks to tell me this. Not like they’re apologizing for anything. Oh, and they told me something else. I was the only one they took out of the black hole. They decided it was too risky for them to take anyone else out.
Just like that.
They don’t want to take anyone else out because they might lose power to their devices for a week. Sure, they’re powered like any other device - they charge themselves, then once they’ve injected enough raw energy, they can do stuff, but I mean, seriously. They could just plug themselves in so that they regain power when the power comes back on!
But no, that would be too inconvenient.
Why would we inconvenience ourselves to take people out of a black hole?
So that’s it. They’re just gonna leave them in there.

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CHAPTER 1
It’s morning.
Not that I could tell. Or anyone, really.
To stop global warming, they basically put up these massive sun blockers. Literally, they block out the sun, and release heat. Because honestly, waiting for the weather to change is so last century. But who cares? There’s no more green anywhere. They control the weather, too. Oh, but that doesn’t matter, since food isn’t a thing anymore. Yeah, now we just charge ourselves. But it’s hard to find time to charge ourselves, since sleep isn’t a thing. So of course, we get portable chargers. The hospital people wanted to install something to let me gain energy from the chargers, but honestly, I’d rather eat dirt. Oh wait – my bad. Dirt isn’t a thing anymore. Instead, I’m stuck eating these cubes of energy made for kids who don’t have a charger installed yet. Wow, now I’m really talking like we’re robots.
Don't ask me why, how, or when this happened. I don’t know, and honestly, I doubt I care. What does it matter when we became robots? We are robots; that’s what matters. Or maybe we’re AI? If we’re not AI, then we’re at least controlled by AI.
Or I guess it’s not AI; It’s IA, short for Internal Accessing.
Seriously?
Like, if you’re going to be a robot, at least do it in a dignified way.
Oh, and in case you didn’t understand me the first time, IA controls us, like we used to control robots.
Yeah, you heard me right.
IAAI chooses what information goes into our computer chips.
It decides when we get energy from our chargers and when we don’t.
It decides what color hair a kid has.
It even decides how many kids each person must have.
Needless to say, I hate it.
Doesn’t this sound like the opening scene for an IA AI takeover? Of course, IA AI literally owns the world already, so what does it matter?
Let’s talk about education. There’s not much to say. I can give you the life of someone born here in a few sentences.
First, IA AI chooses what they look like. Eye color, hair color.
When they are a baby, they are put in choice environments (by IA) to make them agreeable, non confrontational, and all the other “good traits” of a kid.
I’ll pause here, to inform you that age isn’t a thing anymore. No, because how does a robot age? And ok, we’re only half metal, but the other half we can just “swap” all the time. You still get wrinkly from old age, but not in the same way.
Anyway, after being put into these “great environments”, the kids only have partially developed brains, so they’re dumb.
Basically turning them into mindless, brain washed workers.
Then, a computer chip is inserted into their brain, where an IA AI basically makes all the decisions for them for the rest of their lives, resulting in only partially developed brains, and bad memory storage.
They are chosen for a job by their IA AI based on how they grew up, and work there for most of their lives, until everything possible has been taken from them. Then they get to join the presenist cult, where they command other people who started like them to do things, for the rest of their lives. the rest of their lives. Which are usually unnaturally long, since somehow we conquered old age, and now a lot of people are really old, but they still look young, just with wrinkles..
Oh yeah, and if there’s too many people on earth, then some people get killed. Painlessly, sure. But still killed.
For the greater good, obviously, to stop overpopulation.
Give me a break already.
I’m just a ray of sunshine, aren’t I?
Hmmmm.
What else about this?
Maybe the only good thing about this world is that IA AI is incapable of being greedy. And since IA AI basically controls everything, at least there’s no wars or anything… which brings me to problem #2: Earth is now a Presenism.
In case you don’t know what presenism is, it’s basically a cult of living in the present, not making decisions, and when given the choice to save, say, your sibling or you, choosing yourself.
Yeah, doesn’t it sound wonderful?
Anyway, when learning was a thing, I read this book called The Wrong Stuff. It was basically the sequel to another book, The Right Stuff, which was about American pilots and their space program. The Wrong Stuff was basically about the soviet program, and why socialism doesn’t work.
Anyway, all the problems that happened in that book I see here. Like for example all the dangerous stuff is not made safe at all, and all the safe bits are super safe. Which doesn’t really make sense, but the point is that anything that normally would have precautions doesn’t have any, and anything that normally wouldn’t have precautions has tons of precautions.
Honestly, if any historians somehow survive this and write about it later, it would probably be called something like “The Age of Dumb People” or something.
Not that anybody ever does anything dangerous though, since doing stuff isn’t a thing anymore.
All you need to know is that presenism is an extremely religious, selfish, lazy group of people which make up all of earth – well, makes up most of earth. Earth actually has two sides; One filled with trash, and another filled with Presenists. Not that either one is better than the other. Any non-believers in the Presenist cult live in the dump, scavenging off waste and trash. But I’ll talk about that later. For now, let's talk about something that’s probably on your mind: Does time travel exist?
Short answer #1: Yes.
Short answer #2: No.
How can I explain…
Time travel exists like… like planes exist now (They don’t exist anymore in case you were wondering. Instead people are whisked around in these weird frisbees, like from a sci-fi movie. Don’t ask why, there’s no answer).
Einstein’s theory of special relativity basically says – oop, excuse me; said – that the faster you go, the slower time passes. But Einstein also mentioned that nothing can go faster than the speed of light. Ok, that’s all well and good. But here’s the twist: Light doesn’t actually run around like we do. Imagine that light is pushing (pulling?) against objects. What if there was another force that was pulling (pushing?) against that?
Well, surprise surprise, that’s what black holes do, and that’s how they trap light. So this person, Burton Demira or whatever they’re called, figured out how to harness that pulling energy from a black hole; basically they figured out how to recollect information lost to a black hole — which effectively gave them the power to recreate the things inside the black hole. This got them thinking, and soon people were jumping into black holes, looking through time, then being recreated through the information collected.
This is kind of how I was kept alive for fifty years. The only difference is the type of the black hole – but that’s a different topic.
Well, Time travel doesn’t happen anymore, because nobody cares about it. Sure, it was cool when it was being created, but honestly, as I’ve heard everyone I asked, “Why go back in time when we have such great lives here?”
Oh, I don’t know. Definitely not to learn anything! Yeah, no. Why would we want to see what happened in the past, people? Uh-uh. Not cool at all, I’m sure.
And in case you can’t tell, yes, I’m being sarcastic.
Ok, let’s talk about the scenery here. I’m going to pretend you weren’t listening when I explained a bit about Earth, because honestly I doubt you’re still reading.
There are two sides of Earth; A dump, and another dump. The main difference is that one of the dumps is made of discarded chargers, waste, and non-believers in presenism, while the other is made up of lazy, selfish presenists, who have everything you’ve ever dreamed of, and couldn’t care less.
Those are the people who decided not to bring back some people they’d trapped in a black hole, making them forever live in a coma so that time wouldn’t pass, and we’d stay alive – they didn’t bring any of us back because they might lose power on their side of Earth for a week. Yes, I already said that. Yes, I’m saying it again. Because it’s so ridiculous!
Oh, right. I promised I’d talk about the scenery.
Hmmmm…
If we went into space anymore (which by the way, in case you’re wondering, we can’t, since Earth is surrounded by an impassable layer of space junk. If anyone actually cared, we could probably get out, but everyone is too lazy)... Ok, I probably lost you there. Ahem.
If we went into space anymore, and looked at Earth, we’d probably see two sides, like the moon: A completely white side and a completely black side. Guess which one’s which. I’ll end the mystery for you now; the black side is the dump which is full of trash and stuff. In the center there’s a tiny lake, the last surviving amount of water on Earth. Honestly, I think I may envy the people who live there. On the other side, the Presenist dump is completely white, since those massive sun blockers I mentioned earlier that control how hot or cold Earth is are blocking everything.
Oh, and I forgot to mention a few more important things.
First, there are no countries.
Second, The Presenist half of Earth was replaced with solid Helium (which, if you lived when I did, you know should’ve been impossible to make into a solid). This was so that everyone feels they’re floating.
Third, a lot of people you see walking around are partially made up of metal. I know I mentioned this a bit before, but I’m saying it again because it’s insane. That’s so they don’t get hurt very often (Not like they’d ever do anything that they might get hurt from), and so that even when they’re old, they still feel lively.
It’s creepier than it sounds.
Fourth, the Presenist religion is that AI is their god. They literally worship it every hour. It’s insane. I mean, we CREATED AI. How do they expect that to be their god?????
Hmmmmm…
Oh yeah, fifth, money and jobs are different here. People work jobs for the “common good”, and money doesn’t really matter. In fact, people with a lot of money are shunned, and ostracized.
Which brings me to yet another fault in this new society, which are illegal encampments.
I don’t know about you, but when I think of a futuristic world, or imagine some sci-fi society, all those tents under highways, in subways, and in parks don’t really come to mind. Well, unfortunately, as you can probably guess, they exist. Only, since subways, highways, and parks don’t exist anymore, they camp out on these clouds above us. Or sorry, clouds don’t exist anymore. I mean floating white islands. The islands change color depending on how addicted the inhabitants are to illegal drugs. Oh wait, something being illegal isn’t a thing anymore, since everyone believes in doing what you want to do, living in the present and all that!, so I guess that what they’re doing is perfectly OK.
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