How To Get A Common Lisp Job In 2055

The Cloud — the world’s first anti-gravity data center.

It’s 2055. The job market is tough. AI automation has made 99.7% of all jobs obsolete — a human barista is now a novelty.

Despite AI calling the shots, it can’t generate truly original ideas — there’s just something fundamental about human creativity, perhaps linked to the mysterious quantum microtubules in our brains.

We still need new ideas, the economy runs on them. But after millennia of civilization, genuinely new ones are rare. This is where “Idea Engineers” come in.

Idea Engineers work inside controlled environments called “Idea Farms,” purpose-built to nurture creativity. Here, they let their minds run free. An AI evaluates every passing thought, comparing it against humanity’s collective knowledge to extract the rare original concept.

Most become “R.E.M. Engineers,”, sleeping with a neural interface which upload their dream-generated ideas directly into The Cloud (the world’s first anti-gravity data center). They literally dream for a living.

Then there are the “Nirvana Engineers,” the rock stars of the idea world, who create ideas awake, often enhanced by microdosed pharmaceuticals.

Welcome To The Idea Farm

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