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The first thing he invented, he wasn’t sure what it would do when he pressed the button on the user interface. He researched satellite systems and found a way to unite them to produce a signal that went worldwide. Considering how far-reaching it was, he was pretty calm about it. His name was Findley. His mother named him after her second cousin, an old guy who lived in Homer Alaska. His mom told him that her cousin Findley drank cold water directly from the tap without filtering it. After he pressed the button, Findley hummed to himself “It’s a Hostile Government Takeover” an old protest song that featured a dancing cat. Then all the many little programs he stitched together came alive with the negus and achieved their purpose. Findley stepped outside and looked around. It all looked the same. There were no jets crashing from the blue gray skies, or cars running into each other. Nothing was different in the city. It sounded the same, smelled the same. For a long time after things went digital, the banking systems tried to keep written ledgers, but it was just too heavy, the amount of paper itself was too heavy for the buildings, and the level of detail too much -- for after a while they abandoned the practice of written records and went fully digital. But what Findley's button had done was erase all the data in banks related to digital records of money, globally. All the plus and minus signs were now zeroed out. Nobody anywhere owed anyone any money, nobody anywhere had any money in an account. Those keeping written records, or handshake agreements still had those. Whatever you had or didn’t have before, after Finley pressed his button, everyone, at least digitally, was equal. Findley was 17 years old. He had written code for a sound that sang a tasty digital song and artificial intelligence systems liked it so much that they all sang along.
mar 22, 2025, 11:12 pm • 2 0

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