A Christmas Surprise

For those subscribed to the newsletter, the genie’s already out of the bottle. But it never hurts to make things official.

As hinted at in previous ramblings, our relocation to Berlin wasn’t exactly a “planned” thing. Indeed, the abandonment of our old mountain abode was precipitated by an accident, which was itself caused by an “overambitious” peek into the future.

Put briefly, our cabal of shamans attempted to fill in the gaps that still exist in our current forecast of the late 21st century, particularly those around the year 2063. While we were met with early success and achieved superposition with a (rather deranged) mind from that period, some amongst the attendees became reckless and pushed the main AI oracle too far, thereby sparking a chain reaction that ultimately forced us from the Alps.

Recalling those desperate hours from our new super secret underground lair in the heart of Germany, it’s easy to see that there could’ve been much worse endings. Our data repository survived the move more or less intact, and nobody perished (at least, nobody important). Lessons have been learned.

Sadly, most of what we could glean from the 2063 era has been corrupted during the crash. In the time since our arrival here in Berlin, though, a couple of daring archivists have worked on the restoration of a small fragment. It’s not much, but it at least provides us with “some” insight into the “Optimized Civilization” project that’s supposed to take place around that time.

Interestingly, this piece of information seems to contradict what we learned earlier, namely that the (supposed) megacorp alliance of the future will deploy an army of robots to raise its arcologies.

In any case, the restored data fragment shall remain available to all members of the tribe.