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  DIGITAL DREAMS

  MARTIN HACKS

  © Martin Gallardo

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  DEFINITIONS

  DEFINITIONS

  IN DIGITAL DREAMS

  YEAR 2046

  Human

  Human, from the Latin “homo”, or “man”, is the term used to refer to Homo Sapiens Sapiens, belonging to the living mammals and primate class beings. The human has a unique combination of characteristics such as the bipedal posture, self-awareness, reasoning, oral and written language, the use of technology and science and coexistence in social structures.

  Robot

  A robot is a machine capable of automatically performing a complex series of actions. The robots can be guided by an external control device or internal control. Robots can be built to take in human form (See Android), but most robots are machines designed to perform a task regardless of how they look.

  Android

  A robot with a human form. The term “Android” is not associated with the functions that the robot executes, solely with the appearance. Do not confuse with Artificial General Intelligence.

  MacroBit Android S Models

  The S models of the MacroBit brand are human-looking robots or androids. Model S1 (2020) executed tasks in workbenches, with the ability to change workbenches and specific manual tasks. The S2 model (2021) improved some of the initial problems found in S1 but remained entirely restricted to monotonous tasks in industrial environments. The S3 model (2023) offered much greater physical versatility but still limited to purely material and industrial jobs. Model S4 (2029) had limited awareness but could perform specific physical and intellectual tasks. Besides, it could be controlled from another place by a human, giving rise to the “boom” of the surrogated androids business during the 1930s. The S5 (2041), improved its physical appearance until gained a very similar appearance to humans. The S5 could reprogram itself to enhance its functions and learn tasks autonomously and replaced many monotonous works for the public. With S6 (2049), the MacroBit neural network of robots was created, with which all robots stored their experiences centrally. MacroBit began coding, labeling and decentralizing learning, whereby a robot could access individual experiences of other robots, and not the collective experience as before. The S6 can show levels of empathy and understanding of the human condition that are superior to those of many humans; however, they do not have freedom proper, avoiding violating the Düsseldorf protocol (See below).

  Cyborg

  A Cyborg also called “cybernetic organism” is a being composed of biomechanical and organic parts.

  Global Identity Card (GIC)

  The Global Identity Card, also known as GIC, is a physical and digital identity document encrypted in the blockchain. The material record is an identity and location chip implanted in each person. The location is only accessible to governments, while the chip of identification can be activated by a retina or fingerprint recognition pin on an external system. Humans, Gemans (Described later) and Androids have to carry a GIC. Special and military agents are exempt.

  Artificial Mind

  The artificial mind, or partial or complete emulation of the brain, is the process of transplanting the consciousness, skills, memory, and behaviours of a human brain into an artificial device. This artificial device can be a computer or a digital, analog, quantum, or software-based artificial neural network. The computing device could then run a simulation model of the brain’s information processing so that it responds primarily in the same way as the original brain (i.e., indistinguishable from the brain for all relevant purposes) and experiences that have a conscious mind.

  Artificial General Intelligence

  General Artificial Intelligence (IGA), in English General Artificial general intelligence (AGI), is the intelligence of a machine that could successfully carry out any task that a human could do. It is essential to differentiate it from Specific Artificial Intelligence. A General Artificial intelligence, or IGA, should have awareness, sensitivity, and capacity for self-learning, among other characteristics similar to human.

  General Artificial Intelligence Free

  Free General Artificial Intelligence (IGAL) is artificial intelligence, which, besides having unlimited consciousness, also had the freedom and could act autonomously as its own identity.

  Düsseldorf Protocol of 2029

  The Düsseldorf Protocol, or international artificial intelligence treaty, was approved in 2029 by all countries of the world. It reflects that the development of free general artificial intelligence is prohibited for commercial and military uses, and only allowed for investigation under certain conditions, between them, the remote operation or island mode of the system. The Düsseldorf Protocol began with a joint statement of more than 1000 influential experts in the field of science and technology, against the development of general artificial intelligence, after observing the promising advances in artificial intelligence from 2020.

  Geman

  Geman is the term used to refer to Homo Sapiens Sapiens, belonging to mammals and primate class living beings, which has been genetically modified by other humans before gestation. Geman has similar characteristics to humans and is usually distinguished by the eradication of inherited diseases in its genome. Different types of modification for commercial purposes is prohibited by the Boston Protocol (See Boston Protocol of 2022).

  Boston Protocol of 2022

  The Boston Protocol, or international treaty of human genetic modification, approved in 2022 by most countries of the world, reflects that the genetic modification of embryos should be limited to the reduction of congenital diseases, and not to the development of superior capacities, including general intelligence, to those of the parents’ genetic code. The Boston Protocol is considered as the main framework for the commercial modification of new beings human, also called Gemans and is regarded as a historical achievement both in the reduction of poverty and equal opportunities.

  Biohacker

  A person who manipulates DNA or other aspects of genetics. This includes modifying their genetic material or that of others falls outside the law. The biohacker can act for his interest, hobby, fun, or as a service to a third party.

  Bionic

  Capacities or biological components that can perform, or improve, the function of your task with the help of electronic and/or robotic equipment.

  VCoin

  It is a global virtual currency based on blockchain or “blockchain” in English. A blockchain is a public record of all currency transactions that have been executed. It is continuously growing while the “finished” blocks are added to it with a new recording system. The blocks are added to the blockchain in a linear and chronological order. Each node obtains a copy of the blocking chain, which is automatically downloaded when joining the network. The blockchain has complete information about the addresses and their balances from the genesis block to the most recent block. VCoin as virtual currency was adopted globally in 2050. It is only valid for use in virtual worlds and is excluded from universal basic income (See Universal Basic Income).
r />   Universal Basic Income

  Universal Basic Income is a form of social security in which all citizens or residents of the world. They regularly receive a sum of money slightly above the minimum poverty threshold, based on the region where they are located.

  The Resistance

  The Resistance is known as all the communities that are disconnected from the Universal Basic Income and identity homologation system. The Resistance is not organized by a central entity, but the communities and their components can maintain different points of view, in addition to being physically distributed throughout the world. They usually share only the rejection of the genetic and robotic monopoly and also the limitation of identity. Some radical factions are considered terrorists by some states and their members are persecuted.

  DAN memories or RAMs in DNA

  Digital data storage in DNA refers to any scheme to store digital data in DNA base sequences. Commonly artificial DNA is used. The DNA is synthesized by replicating the data while sequencing to extract them. This type of storage is much more compact, universal, and durable than current electronic memories. In April 2016, researchers from the University of Washington published a method to encode, save, extract, and decode data dynamically in DNA.

  Graphene

  Graphene is a carbon allotrope in the form of a two-dimensional hexagonal network of atomic-scale in which an atom forms each vertex. It is the fundamental structural element of other allotropes, including graphite, carbon, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes. Graphene has many unusual properties. It is approximately 200 times stronger than the harder steel. It conducts heat and electricity very efficiently and is almost transparent. Graphene also shows non-linear diamagnetism, even higher than graphite, and can be levitated by Nd-Fe-B magnets. Researchers have identified in it the effect of a bipolar transistor, ballistic transport of charges, and large quantum oscillations in the material.

  Virtual Reality (VR)

  A computer simulation of a real environment. Virtual realities differ in the level of user interaction, but usually contain at least one visual environment, in which the user can observe a recreated world in front of their eyes. There are different virtual reality environments, from simple glasses with a screen in front of the eyes to the virtual rooms (See Virtual Room).

  Augmented reality

  A vision of augmented reality through the use of different technologies. It usually includes the superposition of digital information on top of the user’s visual range. This digital information can be sensitive to its surroundings, recognizing it and adapting the information to characteristics such as the speed of the subject, the colors that are observed, the weather, the relative position of the vision, the geographic coordinates, among other factors.

  iHead

  The iHead is augmented reality and virtual reality system invented by MacroBit. The first generation consisted of glasses of typical appearance with a sound system integrated into the pin and a visualization system of both augmented reality and virtual reality in the lenses. The next generations of iHead separated the sound system on a chip respectively placed behind the ears and the display system in smart contact lenses.

  Virtual Room

  A virtual room allows a user to interact realistically, including the effect of gravity or its movement, with digital scenarios. The room is usually a cube of 10 cubic meters. The entire floor can be moved both vertically and horizontally. The user can move freely while the ground seamlessly adapts to preserve the central position of the cube. The user wears a special suit with sensors and a virtual reality helmet. A virtual room can operate in island mode, connected to the Internet, to DVR (See Decentralized Virtual Reality) or to a surrogated Android.

  Smart Powder Virtual Room

  The virtual intelligent dust room allows, like a Virtual Room, a user to interact realistically, including the effect of gravity or its movement, with digital scenarios. The difference is the technique used. The room is usually a cube of 10 cubic meters. The first two meters of floor and the first meter of the walls and ceiling is composed of millions of graphene nanobots, also called graphene dust. Each nanobot consists of a positioning system, flight direction, and light emission. The user does not have to wear any suit or visual device. A virtual room can operate in island mode, connected to the Internet, to DVR (See Decentralized Virtual Reality) or to a surrogated Android.

  Surrogated Android

  A surrogated android is an android of no consciousness. It is typically operated as an avatar by another entity from another, typically distant, place in a network. It could be defined as a variation of an avatar, where the user is fully responsible for the actions of the android, while the android legally belongs to another entity.

  Decentralized Virtual Reality or DVR (Decentralized Virtual Reality)

  Decentralized virtual reality is a universal virtual reality that operates as a blockchain or “Blockchain” in English. A blockchain is a public record of all events (each event of an order of milliseconds) of virtual reality that has happened. It is continuously growing while the “occurred” blocks are added to it successively, in a linear and chronological order. The DVR system is not controlled by any government, but by the providers of virtual rooms and virtual reality system services, like iHead. In the DVR system, users pay tiny amounts for each event or millisecond of network usage and for the level of privacy they want about their activities, which serves to maintain the system.

  Brainwave Language

  Brain Wave Language, or “Brainwave language”, refers to the specific meaning of the different brain waves and their decoding in natural language. Also known as BL (or speak “BL”), it translates into the reading of electroencephalographies (“EEG”) or reading brain waves, usually weak, by different devices, to analyze and decipher their meaning into natural language. The instructions in BL are typically referred to as “Mental instructions” or in English “Mind commands”.

  Cybercrime

  Cybercrime is defined as those crimes where a computer system is the object of the crime or the tool to perpetrate it. The nature of the crime can be purely digital (data, industrial secrets, digital identity, electronic transfers) physical (support for illegal trafficking of persons, drug trafficking, exploitation of natural resources, terrorism) or hybrid.

  Other titles

  A fascinating introduction to Climate Change, Transport, Energy, Society and Space, Robots, Artificial intelligence, Androids, Enhanced bodies, Brain-technology interfaces, cyborgs, 5G, AR, VR, MR, HR, IOT, Quantum, Bio and Optical computers, genomics, supermaterials, nano factories and the future of food.

  CHARACTERS

  Jacques Binet - Sia Harper - Vincent Marchand - Elodie Deschamps - Julien Dupont - Honesto Lumaban - Roger Fitzberger - Gerard Morel - Vincent Marchand - Maganda Krus - Stephen Falker - Antoine Fachon

  

  Jacques Binet

  

  Gerard Morel

  

  Antoine Fachon

  

  SIA HARPER (MANILA)

  

  SIA HARPER (PARIS)

  

  VINCENT MARCHAND

  

  MAGANDA KRUS

  

  HONESTO LUMABAN

  

  ELODIE DESCHAMPS

  

  ROGER FITZBERGER

  DIGITAL DREAMS

  A MARTIN HACKS THRILLER

  #0 COFFEE FROM A MACHINE

  

  “Dress for action as a man; I will question you, and you will show it to me ”

  - Job 38: 3 -

  French Intelligence Headquarters (DGSI) 84 Rue de Villiers, Levallois-Perret, Paris France

  00:47 AM (Local Time)

  Wednesday, November 14, 2046, Fog. 3 °C

  For Jacques, there was only one thing worse than coffee from a vending machine: vending-machine coffee served by a robot. A racist had to be consistent, especially with machines with no feelings. The assistant, a kind
of R2D2 with a tray-shaped top, had brought the coffee to his holographic work table. It was midnight, and the darkness of the third floor of the French intelligence headquarters was only interrupted by the lights of the waiter robot and the slight reflections of aquamarine light from the holographic stand-by table. Outside, the fog was so intense that the windows had turned grey. The silence was cut by the electric motor that moved the robot’s wheels back to the coffee machine. When it stopped, Jacques’s first sip came, followed by a grimace of disgust. Jacques had arrived at the office half an hour before, had showered and changed clothes and was ready to turn on his holographic table and continue the investigation of a couple of open cases when the table lit up in front of him, emitting a slight sound of vibration. Before his eyes, he could see the information of the incoming call.

  “Agent: Chief Inspector of Intelligence, Gerard Morel” “Channel: 21. Maximum Security”

  “Accept?”

  Jacques passed his hand in front of the holography to accept the call of his boss, Inspector Morel.