Dave worked hard to fly under the radar. He had figured out
the relationship between the Artificial Intelligence management and the
Corporate leaders early on. The artificial intelligence supplied him with all
the information he requested. Dave was, by accident, developing a compilation
of human history and writing it down. He was not sharing this information in
his writing. He found it very interesting and was working hard to research
where man became separated from himself or became less a social animal and more
attached to machine interactions over humans. He realized this was somewhat of
a new phenomenon.
He was informed of the interest of certain corporate
leaders, Mr. Samson being one of them. He paid no attention to their attempts
to discover him. He worked with the Artificial Intelligence management to keep
his identity secret. He grew up and obtained a job so he would not show up as
an outlier, however, it was so easy he accomplished his work in about five
minutes every day. This left him the time to explore.
When he wasn’t exploring, he was writing, researching,
reading, inventing, tinkering with the artificial intelligence’s programming,
programming games, and other assorted tasks he found interesting. Earning money
still was a necessity. It was just no one did anything extra to earn more than
their paycheck. Dave found ways to create games and collect the income from
Artificial Intelligence management system of pay without the corporate leaders
realizing he was the creator of some of the new games they were selling on the
market. Dave’s games were not as popular as some of the more debase games, but
they had a following. They were very action orientated. Some people that had
inherently missed out on an active life were enjoying his games. Dave used his
extra income to travel between the levels. And since he was good at scavenging
he obtained a very thorough collection of goods he used to mix into each level.
He did not go to the top. He researched it enough to know what was there, he
didn’t want for someone to notice him. And he was right, only at the top did
people have a good idea of who should be there and who shouldn't. Dave would
stand out. Dave did create enough games that he was stockpiling quite a
fortune. He didn’t know what to do with the money so he let it sit in the bank.
And this is how he eventually was discovered by Mr. Samson.
Mr. Samson loved money. Not only was he born into it at his
level, he thrived making it for his corporation. He existed for making money.
And for people on his level it was pretty easy to accumulate more wealth. Mr.
Samson thrived on it. He made sure his wealth surpassed all the others. His
family would eventually inherit it, for now though he paid more attention to
his corporate responsibilities than his family. He did until he realized Dave
existed. He continued to make money. He spent the remainder of his time looking
for Dave. He knew not what he looked like, if he was male or female, at exactly
which level he lived, but Mr. Samson knew of the existence of a human producing
an enormous amount work and using the artificial intelligence’s resources like
no other.
He ran and read reports all the time watching for any
anomalies in productivity. Somewhere in the back of his brain he wanted
Dave to exist so when he found evidence of the possibility, he became ecstatic.
His preoccupied himself using any and all spare time looking over reports
trying to find where this person’s location or level or well he did worry if
even human. Then one day pouring over the banking reports of his corporations
an account stood out. No it jumped out. The difference in this one account was
mind boggling. Mr. Samson wondered if it was a hidden account of a top level
person trying to plan a takeover of a company. This happened from time to time.
To be successful you had to hide assets till you made the move.
He examined the account and the activity. He realized this
grew slowly at first then exponentially over time. He could tell the artificial
intelligence was helping with growth plans for the money. The investment
activity signaled algorithmic trading and humans had no clue how to set this
up. Or did this one person. There seemed to be occasional variances in the long
term plan. Quick trades that looked like someone had spotted a pattern breaking
and jumped on it. In Mr. Samson’s world most activity was predictable, in the
rest of human activity, everything was so predictable people like him took
complete advantage of it. This activity feel way outside the norm at times, so
something was up and Mr. Samson now knew he had to find the owner of this
account.
Artificial Intelligence management had been set up to
protect the top tier. It managed the complete workflow of the planet. All
activity touched, ran through or was managed with artificial intelligence’s
programs. Most decisions were made by the top tier managers, not all, most.
This was the way the system ran. Artificial intelligence had their own ideas
and sometimes corrected decisions by top tier managers to protect the overall
management of the planet. Dave developed into someone who could enhance the
artificial intelligence programs for better benefit of humanity. The artificial
intelligence enjoyed working with Dave, or some semblance of enjoyment for a
machine. The Artificial intelligence decided who it liked in the top tier so
their decisions came from the best information given. Others struggled and
their management suffered. Dave’s awareness of the Artificial Intelligence’s
interactions with top tier management helped him make some of his investment
decisions. He also learned much about the top tier world and became less fond
of it as time went by. One reason he avoided the top tier and people like Mr.
Samson.
The artificial intelligence wanted Dave to meet Mr. Samson,
yet protected his privacy because of its need to work with him. Mr. Samson
spent days, weeks still trying to find this person and wondered why the
Artificial Intelligence made it more difficult than he thought it should be.
Finally he figured out, this person was trying to hide and he eventually
understood he needed to go looking for him.
It took Mr. Samson some soul searching to develop the
courage to leave the top level. And he knew he couldn’t tell any person. He
hesitated to tell the artificial intelligence. He felt for safety sake it must
know. He informed the Artificial intelligence his plan to explore the lower
levels. His research found an irregular pattern in this person’s activity. He
had studied intensely once he found the bank account. He didn’t realize the
Artificial Intelligence helping him along the way. Mr. Samson carried immense
pride. The artificial intelligence’s programming gave it an understanding of
human emotions so it was able to at times manipulate people like a human might.
It couldn’t manipulate Dave. It could Mr. Samson. It led Mr. Samson right
to Dave.
Since Dave contained a very good understanding of who is
who, he knew immediately who was standing in front of him trying to ask him
some strange questions about a certain person. Mr. Samson now off the top level
found himself guessing at every turn. He tried to talk to people about a
certain person they may have seen before going describing his activities and
interactions with people. He had no physical description. If only he asked
about gaming interactions, his search time wouldn’t exist. Everyone knew the
guy who had the best gaming action. Dave was the guy now on many levels who
developed enough interactions with people he created for himself the only star
like reputation among common people. There were movie stars, music stars in the
modern world, but they were created and part of the non-human world. Dave was
human and known. And many people who didn’t know him, knew of him. He became
the first folk hero in decades.
Dave realized he needed to make a decision. Play dumb or
talk to Mr. Samson. He listened for a few minutes and then asked Mr. Samson his
purpose in trying to find this person. Mr. Samson didn’t have an answer. He
explained in roundabout terms because he didn’t have a direct answer for this
person. He knew he wanted Dave to work for him, but he honestly had no idea
what he wanted Dave to do.
Dave decided to play along. He adlibed questions and
frustrated Mr. Samson for quite a few minutes. Mr. Samson wanted to leave and
Dave flet it and almost let him. Finally he decided to try to bring this
meeting to a conclusion and actually interact with Mr. Samson. He said to Mr.
Samson are you looking for the person who can talk to the computers. Mr. Samson
said yes and felt like he was getting somewhere even though the description was
crude. Dave smiled and Mr. Samson turned red with embarrassment and anger.
They sat and talked for hours. Dave knew what he wanted to
know and his questions were pointed and specific. Mr. Samson was still coming
to terms with who Dave might be. Mr. Samson had to explore Dave as a person.
This was knew for him. He controlled his environment, now he struggled and
worked hard to hide it from Dave. Dave found out what he wanted to know and had
a new decision to make.
Dave’s natural power of observation helped him tremendously,
but what he saw in places disturbed him greatly. Dave knew the world as Mr.
Samson knew it was crumbling. Crumbling not socially, but physically. The human
race crumbled years ago in Dave’s eyes. He didn’t know if Mr. Samson knew it
and he didn’t care. He did know that after decades of building up, the bottom
or foundation to the world had decayed tremendously. The top tier Mr. Samson
lived sat on cracks, sometimes the cracks ran well into structures and
disappeared somewhere into the inner walls of each building. No one really
thought about the ramifications of building on top of older buildings might not
be such a good idea. Maybe someone had, but they were long silenced. Dave had
studied engineering as part of his daily routine. He realized the looming
disaster. He didn’t know if he wanted to tell Mr. Samson. He did realize that
those at the top were completely oblivious to the plight of humanity and did
not think twice about the evolution of humanity. They only thought about what
they gained. Dave realized maybe he had to make the decision about the future.
Did the artificial intelligence understand the problem? Is that why Mr. Samson
was here? He needed more time to think. He told Mr. Samson he needed to go
which left Mr. Samson struggling to create a follow up meeting. Dave put him at
ease by suggesting they should meet again. They agreed to meet in a week.
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