Send in the clones

 This'll really piss somebody off...

I thought about it and figured Generation X is sort of a weird hybrid freak with half of their life spent in analogue, crossing into digital and beyond.  You might live to see your own demise initiated and implemented by a machine.  The proof is ongoing in the European theater of operation, where they use AI drones to inflict casualties.  In 20 years, it will not be some fancy toy in the sky. It might be a machine you perceive as a human operating in the material world.  You'd never hear of that technology if it wasn't in development. We live in an age where it is becoming possible.    

Sweatshops and child slave labour aside, the Apple brand is as American as Coke or Pepsi.  My parents bought our first Apple computer in 1981, and computers have been a part of my life ever since. Steve Jobs made Apple bigger than the Beatles, baby.  That is how far back it goes. I remember that Apple logo, alongside Coke and some guy named Bruce, on the Wheaties box as part of everyday life.  I saw the Apple logo more than soda pop because we didn't drink it with every fucking meal back then. 

You see these human zeppelins walking around drinking a gallon of pop daily and asking why they are fat or embracing it like it is normal. 

Hey, why don't you put down the carafe of soda, tubby, and drink a glass of water instead!? It might take a few weeks, but you will lose ten pounds off the top.  Then take a shot of apple cider vinegar occasionally...there was a lot to be said for fat shaming because we had fewer lardos back then than we do now.  Just saying.  

Gen X was the first to interface the analogue and the digital.  Does it matter?  Not really, because the entire thing will be hijacked for nefarious purposes and who wants to lay that heavy bummer on an entire generation.  

The only way to engineer a functional AI replicant would be through the correct analogue and digital parts interface.   That's the easy part.  

Forget about the rest because it is like Dr Frankenstein.

The Ruskis have been working on this for decades...they want living sentient clones capable of taking orders and carrying them out without emotional attachments.  God knows what they've tried, but their experiments on humans make Hitler look like Father Christmas.    

 

I'm not worried about it because it wasn't a group of soviet citizens who brought you into this brave new world with all this junk to make your life better and easier, it was Americans.  We always create a solution.   

Send in the clones, they're already here...