The Digital Downfall (a 200 word story)

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We didn’t even know we were being conquered. 

How about that for humanity’s divine right?

First shoe to drop was when Amazon just went dark.  Like not even a 404-error dark.  A spinning wheel of painful waiting torture was the only eulogy for what was king the day before. 

Facebook and Twitter were soon only posting stories about end of the world scenarios.  Left wing, right wing, any crackpot scenario of the end of the world was jamming everyone’s feeds.  Reddit was the same, no matter the voting of the members.  Hell, 4chan was even doing it.  Like what the hell, 4chan?

The aliens took over so smoothly that by the time we realized what was happening the only thing we could do was to surrender.  Any attempt at pulling the plug and they would go all Terminator on us.  We expected the AIs we would be fighting would be the ones we created, but we were naive.  The alien AIs controlled every digital system on the planet.  The best part was we were all home waiting for COVID-19 to be cured, but the virus that killed off the autonomy of the human race was digital.  No mask for that.

Time for Hope? (a 100 word story)

The scientists looked at each other, dumbfounded.  Their plan had actually worked.

The world’s problems in 3024 were almost impossible to get your hands around.  That’s why the invented a game.  Actually it was more of a simulation of what the world was going through now.  They then took that simulation and sent it back in time.

They kept watching the archived ancient website reddit for changes.  They finally found a post that someone had won the game.  They looked for more posts, but nothing else appeared.

There was a solution, so there was hope, but did that really help?

 

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