posted March 26, 2012 06:04 PM            

I'll never publish it... it's a seriously rough draft with some horrible spelling and grammatical errors. But if you can get through it, it details exactly how I think Astrology can effect the future ideally.

I just need to get it out of my hands. I don't really care if anyone reads it, just as long as it isn't solely in my hands anymore.

Flashlife

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"For the sake of persons of... different types, scientific truth should be presented in different forms, and should be regarded as equally scientific, whether it appears in the robust form and vivid coloring of a physical illistration or in the tenuity and paleness of a sybolic expression."
- James Clerk Maxwell, address to the Mathmatics and Physics Section, Brit. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, 1870.

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People think that once something is put on the internet it always exists. In a way this is true, in the same way that once a person is born, they always exist. When the body dies, it decomposes, becomes food for wild animals, bugs, and plants. It's raw minerals continue to exist and spread, becoming diluted and while the trace materials may be analyzed and pinpointed as to being once belonging to a human, the information about that human is for the most part completely lost.

On a few rare occasions parts of skeletons have been perserved, mummified by either intent or accident, and more information can be obtained. And on even rarer occasions and the entirity of the person can be found with very little decomposition or degradation of the body. Archeologists consider this a rare find and use every tool and instrument they can to gleen whatever information they can about the individual, the society that they lived in, and anything else they can possibly think of to build a better understanding of the past.

When an intact specimine is found, it refreshes the archeological community and revolutionizes the entire science.

Data on the internet works the same way. It "lives" and "dies" and decomposes. If the data isn't itentionally preserved, it spreads and becomes like figurative layers on the earth, each layer denoting a different point in time, solid enough to get an abstract idea of what life was like, but not enough to learn about the individuals.

Hundreds of years after the invention of the internet, archeologists began to data mine it to extract as much information about the past, the individuals, and the society in the hope that they wouldn't just find the "minerals", but complete and intact skeletons.

Some people may tell you that the change began with the invention of -Flashlife-, but infact, it started about a hundred years earlier with one lonely archeologist data mining the twenty first century.

What she found hidden in the data, sticking out like a rogue bone exposed by a landslide, exposing the promise of an entire skeleton. The care and handling of removing the information around it was a pain staking process, much of the information had to be guessed at and filled in to produce the full work, but it was the bone of data, of these words and the particular insight of this archeologist to exuvate and bring the entire project to the light of day once more.

What she found was this:

Suspend your disbelief.

What if astrology was real?
If we could reproduce it's effect, could we use it to time travel?
Could we use it to create working AI?

That was the bone that started the entire change, and created the world as you know it.

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Much of the information taken from the orginal body of work, as we now know was incredibly flawed. The logic didn't add up to scientific truth, but it was the idea that sparked the imagination to bring about our life.

This book could go into depth compairing what was taken from that original skeleton of data and compair it to what we know to be fact, but almost all of that information you the reader should have learned in elementary school science. This is the history of an idea and how it changed the world.

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The discovery of this skeleton, first brought out the occultic boom, which almost destroyed the very foudation of the project before it got off the ground.

Every secondary science latched ahold of the idea and began to use it to shape their sciences, expand their ideology and try to push their way into the mainstream scientific world. Drug use became a cultural fad, deepening the popularity of the secondary science research. Expanding the mind to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and doing so in any way possible became the front line of every mom and pop research facility.

Political factions attempted to seize control of the socialogical change by founding addendums to current laws and mass incarcerations. This turned the attention towards the more outstanding and currently relative topics, derailing the core of the initial debate. Topics that involved what people were doing, rather than focusing on why they were doing it caused a rift in communities across the globe.

It became a war on drugs and a war on the occult. The media, and self proclaimed evangelists, turned the argument into a small religiously based cold war.

It wasn't until the creation of the United Religion Act, a treaty between any various religions to respect the thoughts and beliefs of other religions, did the escaliation of tensions cease. Not long after the United Religion Act, the first United Religious Society was created.

Drugs, after a time became legal. Incarceration because of possession was no longer an issue, while incarceration because of acts preformed while inebreated went up for a short time and eventually dropped to an all time low. At this time, drug use is almost non existant except within a few small circles of society.

While religion and drug used distracted the majority of the populace, a few random occult minded people continued the study of the various secondary sciences. Enter John Mahoney, who as many of you know, history gives credit to being the Father of the Modern World.

John Mahoney, who took an idea found by a unknown archeologist written hundreds of years prior, and turned it into scientific gold by funding the development of AI technology.

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As you will note while reading through the bones of the data as the archeologists have put it together, many of these concepts are completely out dated. But I caution the reader to not take the information too lightly.

Without the idea, without these bare bones, and without the ingenuity of what was considered modern day science, may of the advances that we have made in the last few hundred years would not have come about.

Teleportation, Space Travel, and AI infustructure to name a few. Can you imagine living in a world without these commodities? What life would be like on Earth, with our growing population if we could not have easily reached out to the stars? The ease of communicating and trading with some of the colonies at the furthest reaches of our galaxy?

Our civilization was on the brink of ruin, with over population, lack of food, and the beginning of the degradation of technology in leiu of just plain survival. Many of you would not even exist without some of the technology today, technology born of these outdated, unmanaged, wild ideas and the scientists willing to risk their careers and in some cases their lives to propigate these ideas.

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The first adaptation of this information into the scientific community was to use the basic principal and guidelines to develop a working AI. Computer Science had come far, and many believed that with the invention of a working quantum computer the next evolution would be into AI. After many failed attempts but a continuing rise in popularity, Computer Engineers were reaching for anything and everything to make their dream a reality.

The first bone of the data specifically mentioned the idea that astrology could imaginably be incorporated into the AI research, so it wasn't a stretch when the orginal founders of -Flashlife Technology-, then called -AI Betterment Industries- began all inclusive research into the subject.

Soon after came A.L.I.C.E. Extreme, named after an ancient counterpart who's research into chatbot technology helped spawn other various seemingly intelligent machines across the globe.

After a massive undertaking at various college's across the world, A.L.I.C.E. Extreme was released onto the net. A live test, with millions of willing and more importantly free test subjects, logging into her site and meet with her self proclaimed AI personality.

The project was a failure by the standards of the groupie scientific community, as she failed to actually achieve the self aware state that the more progressive scientific community labels as true AI. In the long run, however, much like the original idea, the skeleton, the project itself sparked new branches of research. In most of these branches, the same principal was used, taking the basics of Astrology to try and create an AI machine.

And like A.L.I.C.E. Extreme, most of these projects were failures. At the time, it seemed like the Astrological way of going about this research was a dead end.

Again, the idea had almost died before it truly took off.

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A branch of AI research using Astrological principals continued to survive under the guidance of Doctor Robert Welsh, and his privately funded lab located in Northern California.

Dr. Welsh's research consisted of simulating an entire AI environment, growing the populace from it's infintial stages into an advanced civilization, all within a computer network mainframe. The progress was slow, and often times had to be worked over because glitches in the system, or the seemingly random choices of the AI constructs would eventually destroy the entire project. Yet, even with the AI deaths, there was inspiration and hope.

Interaction with the AI constructs were limited, and often completely hand's off, which made classification and interaction with the creations almost impossible. This became an almost insurmountable obstruction to overcome when proposing true AI to the mainstream Scientific Community.

Here again the project almost died, with a very bright and exciting bang, if not for the merger back into -AI Betterment Industries-. With more resources, and now a working AI model, the company was able to take the idea's proposed and build upon them in a way they couldn't concieve prior.

AI Technology was born, and from that gave us a war that almost destroyed the entire planet.

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With the rise of AI infused robotics, as history has shown us, any new technology that can be used in the act of war IS used in the act of war.

Millions of robots of various shapes and sizes, some only as big as a virus, and others as large as a bus, were released on battlefeilds around the world. This was seen on most sides and a win/win situation, wars could be fought, people could be defended, land rights could be established without bloodshed.

He who had the biggest toys would win.

Most people at that time had very little understanding or respect for AI technology. If it was designed to fight, it would fight. To them the robots they were designing were tools to be used, and they were used poorly.

As to be expected, there was a backlash from both the human rights movement and the robots themselves. The robots rebeled against their human captors, and with the help of the human rights movement, the few that weren't destroyed in the ongoing war and the personal home units were given equal rights among most first world citizens.

Construction of AI units, as voted by the United Nations, came to a complete stop, out of the basic human instinct for survival. The damage had been done, and even today we still have a few of the surviving AI units with us. The most notable being the leader of the Democratic Southern America's - Lee Stanton, who's insight into the human condition has been a long standing inspiration to the entire world and far reaching colonies.

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At this point I can imagine many of you are wondering how -Flashlight- came into existance if the Construction of AI units was outlawed in whole across the globe. This will be brought up later, but right now, we will focus on a new development in technology that the war and AI inspired.

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With the basics of astrology being unamously proven to have had a hand in creating advanced and completely functional AI creations, the science itself got the much needed hand hold that it needed in the scientific community.

While the war progressed, other funding and research went into exploiting the science and the other avenues of advancement it could reveal to our civilization. With the basics of astrology proven, science began to research how it works.

The information that most people had to work with was substantiually flawed. A lot of time was wasted in studying the planets themselves as the direct cause of this annomoly. The war had come and gone by the time a tiny group of grad students stumbled upon what we now call the -Background Feild-. The science of which I am not adept at explaining at this time, but the basics of which you can learn in any of you elementary school's science department.

The background feild was a break through in an entirely new way of looking at the universe. With it's mathmatically proven existence, entirely whole and new branches of science formed. From the failure of precognition to the science which brings us our programing on our view boxes today.

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It wasn't until the recent technology boom that science was able to put it's knowledge into practice. The Background Feild was a nice idea, and it was interesting to study, but it served no practical purposes.

That was until Telsa Jinovi Bernatte found a way to reproduce it's effect. Unbeknownst to her, she too had been influenced by the original skeleton of the idea. It was a dream becoming reality right before her eyes.

Her reproduction of the Background Feild was a huge advancement in science, who's after effects are still felt today. But much like any great advancement, it came at a price. The price almost cost them the entire project.

The project was riddled with explosions, miscalculations, and death. The first few feilds generated could not be held for more than milliseconds at a time. Once stable feilds could be generated, the calculations left the onlookers to a beautiful yet disappointing view of the void of space.

posted March 26, 2012 06:07 PM            

The entire world was in a "Timey" uproar, sporting events, films, books, music, festivals, toys, cars, almost anything you can think of was touched by the "Timey" generation. The thought that people could use the Background Field not just to view the past, but to travel to it, effect it and in turn effect their present was about the only thing people cared to address. Politically, the pros and cons were debated to determine the elective officials. The United Religious Society used the Background Field generator to claim the apcolypse. Everything had to do with "Timey".

The reality of the situation was far from the dream, though. Attempts to view the future using the Background Feild have never been sucessful. With Dr. Bernatte's calculations, viewing the past was feasable, but any attempt to send objects, or even people into the feild was met with failure. Objects could pass into the field, but would disentigrate completely upon arrival into the past.

To this date, we have yet to have sent anyone or anything sucessfully into the past and have it remain intact. The important thing to point out here is that, the time travel aspect of the Background Generator was sucessful, in so much as objects put through it did arrive in the past, but they did so in a way that was not distinguishable from anything but dust.

The Background Generator became mass produced within limitations and used primarly for large scale refuse discard. It was used as such until Chaos Theory evangelist pushed through the Refuse Act, outlawing any item or items to be transported back in time as discard. Even refuse dumped in deep space, far from Earth, they argued, could have an unforseen effect on the present Earth.

After the Refuse Act, the use and experimentation with the Background Generator was confined to labs and preapproved research facilities. Many people even today believe that some of the Generators are still being used to disentigrate and pump useless garbage into the deep reaches of space, but this has no basis in fact.

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Research into the possible uses of the Background Generator were not limited to trash removal, though it took a surprisingly long time for science to catch up to the idea of almost instintatious transportation.

The Generator works on a simple principal, insert space and time coordinates, it generates a "worm hole" to said coordinates. Years after the Refuse Act, and after many failed attempts, it was discovered that if the time was left as current but the space coordinates were changed, an object could move through the feild and instantly appear in the other place.

As you can imagine, this information and ability was the seed of our most recent technological boom. The most revolutionary of which being the ability to find and observe distant planets and their ecosystems, all with a push of a button. Telescopes, anchored in one section of space sending out information directly to the explorer. Robots, being directly placed on the surface of planets to study the environment and capatability with human biology.

The problem being, if their was no field generator on the other side, the objects could be pulled back but could not come back on their own. An insignificant problem compared to the revolutition it created.

Today, as you know, this technology created what we call now, Field Stops. The large buildings you all are so familiar with, where technitions insert the coordinates for each individual person in order to transport them to any preapproved place in the world, or the outer colonies. Some day in the future, we can expect every home to contain a field generator, but while we currently have the technology, the security issues it addresses have kept that particular advancement a long ways off.

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While this transportation revolution was taking place, the entertainment industry would not let go of the idea that it is possible to view the past, unedited, in it's entirety. The use of the the field generator to transport materials to the past had been outlawed, but there was no regulation on simply viewing the past.

One aspiring entertainment entrepreneur seized the opportunity, and with a quick mind of the development team, created "safe" feild generators. The "safe" feild generators create a field the size of a few atoms, but in turn can view a scene as large as the viewer wishes. Each field generator was stacked within a safe distance from one another, billions upon billions, and placed into a large container.

Each field generator can be contacted from Earth, and has an registration and communication code. People with the correct registration and communication code can contact and tune their specific field generator to any time or place that they wish, if they know the correct coordinates.

To date, there are six canisters of field generators orbiting the Earth, each containing approximately 4 billion field generators. All of which are pumping true unedited imagary and sound into individuals homes.

Of course, since this is more recent history, you would already know the legislation passed to modify the generators to disallow any history as recently as fifty years in the past. History more recent than that is not for public viewing, although it is highly speculated, and rightly so, that the governments of the world use the technology to spy on one another. This has also created a frustrating paranoia among the populace and created a vast array of cryptic languages that are spoken commonly today.

You can access the net to get information on the more interesting coordinates in history to view, children, please ask your parents before veiwing anything considered social unacceptable by viewers under the age of sixteen.

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During this time there came a rehash in the genetically modified pet industry, who's interest was directly influenced by the amount of excess people had at the time. During the war, the interest in the industry had wained, causing most companies to go out of business. Other companies made attempts to break into the market, causing a huge uprising of fly-by-night genetic research stands.

Test Tube Puppies was the first company to see the benefit in taking the basic principals of astrology and applying them to the concept of growing pets with mail order modifications. The idea that a person could get a report on the personality of their animal, along with the animal's desposition towards the members of the family sparked the imaginations of the wealthy.

Test Tube Puppies became what we now know as Gnome A Phants, the highly controversial pet stores found in almost every shopping mall across the world. Their practices have been in question after they won the right to tweak genomes in order to create new and sometimes highly combustable forms of life.

The use of genome modification and/or astrologically modified humans is currently illegal.

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Since the mid twentieth century, video games had become a popular form of entertainment with many positive benefits to the users. As society expanded, so did the research and development of the video game industry.

The evolution from screen - controller input systems, to helmet based virtual technology was not an unheard of jump. Helmet based technology consisted of placing a helmet over the head and receiving visual signals via the eyes to simulate a virtual environment. A simple, but expanded screen - controller input system.

Virtual environments became clearer, more life like as the technology progressed. Expansions, that provided and extra electrical outside stimuli to the nervous system spread across the world like a virus as more and more people sought a way to escape their reality in the virtual versions of other people's reality.

Desire outweighed the danger when the first research into direct neural transmissions were presented on the market. These highly dangerous machines created a direct conection between the device and the brain and were used to create a more life like, believable virtual environment. This technology came at a cost, from brain washing, mind controlling, insanity, and death, but without that technology we would not have the neural plugs that we have today.

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With the ban on AI technology, video games at this time were restricted to artificial AI technology. -AI Betterment Industries- were limited to the research they could develop under these guidelines. -AI Betterment Industries- lobbied a petition to pass the Non Interferance Bill, which allows research to continue on AI environments with the condition that there is no outside interferance with the systems.

An AI universe could be created and examined, as long as it was allowed to grow, prosper, and eventually die off without any extra input into the system once it is intiallized.

Due to copywrite laws we cannot release the technical research that went into creating -Flashlife-, an artificial intelligent virtual immersion program, but we can release information about the program itself.

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-AI Betterment Industries- changed their name shortly after the conception of Flashlife. The name Flashlife was derived from the process of the system itself.

Each mainframe creates and houses an entire universe of AI intelligent life forms, they are allowed to grow and develop based on the intial parameters set by the system. The systems themselves have been designed with an automatic shut off time, basing the timing on the degredation of the universes solar systems, matter, etc.

The speed at which these universes come into being and collapse can be altered by the engineers, as long as the data itself is not effected. For the AI occupants of the world, the relativitity of any given length of time will not change no matter how quickly the program is running.

Much like a video, without interference from the outside, the internal time can be rewound, paused, fast forwarded, or even stopped for great lengths of real world time, but the AI inhabitants will never be aware.

The universes created in -Flashlife- or the -Flashlife Technologies- systems are only limited by processing power to determine how quickly they can be created, expanded, and eventually die off. To date, an entire system can be created, evolve, and die within a year.

Each individual AI unit within the -Flashlife- system exists for milliseconds. Lives an entire life, consisting of all that particular universes hopes, dreams, and troubles.

Hence the name -Flashlife-.

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Once a universe is created, the engineers are set with the task of determining if life developed within it. It is rumored that only one out of a thousand universes created contain life. Then the engineers must determine whether or not the life forms are compatable with the -Flashlife- immersion systems.

To date, there are about fifty thousand -Flashlife- universes, each containing an unimaginable amount of diversity and life.

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As a consumer, the process of the -Flashlife- system is simple.

First you must choose your universe, flyers can be provided by any -Flashlife Technologies- representative, or you may choose one off of the multiple view screens.

Second you must choose your AI construct which you will be a simbiant aboard. This can be done by either finding one yourself and viewing their entire life, or by the more popular technique of allowing the -Flashlife- computers choose randomly for you.

A qualified -Flashlife- representative will directly link you, via your neural input, into the -Flashlife- system and align your compatability with the choosen AI construct.

From there, for all intents and purposes, you are the AI construct. Or more specifically, you become an observer through the AI construct's eyes. Everything the AI construct feels, both externally and internally is directly inputed through your neural input.

After the intial phase of the project, you the simbiant, can forget that you are in an immersion program. This is a welcome side effect to the project, because being a simbiant, you have no control over your AI construct, being aware of the simbiosis could lead to madness. Luckily, the brain has built in ways to disengage this particularly life threatening issue.

From a real world perspective, this process takes less than a second. From your perspective, since you are experiencing the universe through the AI construct, the process takes a life time.

Flashlife

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At this time, there are protesters to the -Flashlife- immersion system. It has been proven that immersion into -Flashlife- alters brain functioning. Neural pathways are altered by the immersion program, everything that was learned while in the program is remembered, personality traits of the AI construct tend to stick with the participants.

There is currently a study devoted to using the -Flashlife- system as a criminal deterant, which is also being protested by human right's activists.

Another remarkable turn of events came within the last few weeks when the United Religious Society allowed a -Flashlife- based religious sect to be recognized by their organization.

The -Flashlife- system has been heralded the beginning of what is bound to be another technological explosion. Personally, I believe -Flashlife- could be what brings about the next stage of human evolution.

We've seen what the past has brought us, we've seen the opportunities that the present has given us, who know's what the future may bring.