A Recollection of The Apocalypse

You know, I never thought of it this way, but in pop culture, people talk about time before the apocalypse, and time after the apocalypse. What’s in between? What is THE apocalypse?

Sometimes its a breakthrough in government, which I understand can change life in an instant. In those cases, there wasn’t ever a period one can refer to as the apocalypse.

But in this case, there was a time, for almost a year, which no one ever actually refers to when talking. (Not that there’s much to talk about except community building) I guess you could call that period THE definitive apocalypse.

It all began when Dr. William Prunt, a leading innovator in the field of neuroscience, invented a new device which, when activated, sends out a type of gas, which he claimed to “Completely eradicate the existence of all diseases known to man.” He said that the best way to prevent a pandemic or plague is to attack the DNA of the bacteria.

It wasn’t crazy talk, however. He had managed to do so in micro-sized testing facilities. Like the kinds you used to see in the movies, where the villain puts some potion or uses a gun on some poor, harmless animal, and something goes wrong. You see the heartlessness in the villain’s demeanor.

Enough talk about that, though.

Dr. Prunt was a good man. In fact, at one point, I considered him a friend. It wasn’t him who directly caused the apocalypse. He only kick started it. The device, which he claimed would eradicate disease, was run by artificial intelligence. One thing led to another, and the AI became sentient. But it doesn’t get all 2001: A Space Odyssey. In fact, it didn’t even come close. The crazy bit is, that somehow, the sentient AI had managed to make the gas inside the device sentient. I assume that it evolved, obviously faster than us, and fast enough to pass on their sentience, as a legacy to the AI.

The gas began to identify gene patterns in us that would eventually become part of the patterns of the diseases, coming over the course of time and evolution or already existent.

The gas just followed orders, eradicating people. I’ve watched friends and family succumb to the poison. I decided to keep this log, you know, in case I don’t make it.

Let’s put it simply. The apocalypse was a result of human error. No one’s fault, just human error. We couldn’t predict, or evolve.

After all, no one can really see the future. No matter how hard you try.