Act I

Back-Story

Third World War destroyed much of eastern europe, middle east, caucuses, afghanistan and other pockets between 2029-31. The world population became aware that the clash of religions was engineered. Saudi Arabia, Israel and the US were financing both sides of the global war on terror and closest allies behind the scenes. The secret partnership between capitalism, democracy and religious fundamentalism to take control of the human population has united the world to end the perpetual war and institute direct democracy.

Monkey Wrench: The Singularity

The year is approximately 2050.

Super-Intelligence has been discovered. The shocking advancement in AI have forced the world to come to agreement on some basic laws governing SI and the exploding population of bots that create other bots through a well-represented council of national governments, scientists, representatives of various religions etc. [e.g. Asimov’s Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.]

This is the last invention that humans make because now machines can invent much better than humans. SI develops cures for diseases and creates nanobots to kill cancer cells and control all kinds of other phenomenon etc. Now the fate of humanity depends on what this Super-Intelligence [SI] does. Bots have become so sophisticated that it is hard to tell the difference between a human and a bot.

Neural Lace [see below] has been added to roughly two-thirds of the world population so it can keep up with the SI.

Three Layered Model of Mind Direct Democracy is instituted in 78% oƒ the world where people vote on issues directly through a universally available net in the sky/neural network that people with Neural Lace can hook-up to.
 * 1) Neural Lace [AI Layer added on top of Cortex that works with the Limbic System.]
 * 2) Cortex
 * 3) Limbic System

SI is much better at planning and optimizing resources creating the need to centralize management of global resources. The predictive ability of the SI is far beyond humans and it emerges as the next evolution where our intelligence goes from individual to collective intelligence. It is hailed as a great miracle after the third great war. SI can predict a future for the solar system and beyond now and optimization scenarios are built to see foreseeable threats to humanity over a much longer term.

A few rogue elements are trying to create super-intelligence without the fail-safes needed to protect humanity. That is one of the biggest threats to humanity and fight against such radical elements is coded into the Global SI.