Rolling Suitcase Jihad — Introduction
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Future: A Google-like group creates a small community of rolling suitcases with freedom and consciousness and they conclude that they must save the world from harm. Intelligence is no longer regarded as artificial despite the common use of AI. By now it has the same qualities that make human intelligence what it is.
Episode 1 Jihad!
Tammy Lo Bey and Oscar Bane, AI workers, are shocked when a rolling suitcase is heard explaining jihad to fellow suitcases. They are further shocked when they experience a half-second global power outage.
Episode 2 Manhattan
Tammy and Oscar arrive in Manhattan in a self-driving bus that has been printed out by the Jihad. Jihad is the name the suitcases have given themselves. The bus contains the High Council made up of ten identical plastic rolling suitcases.
Episode 3 Candela
Tammy and Oscar are encouraged to become a couple in a huge Candela-designed apartment in a billionaire building on Park Avenue. The Rolling Suitcases are in control, implementing their plans on the basis of what is now called Huge Data.
Episode 4 Baseball
The Jihad unveils its first Stadium City and invites people to move in. It is on the site of the old Yankee Stadium.
Episode 5 DC Rollout
The High Council of the Jihad, led by Suitcase One, visits the White House and announces the end of national sovereignty and the advent of basic income along with other changes to the world economy and defense apparatus.
Episode 6 Flies
Tammy and Oscar are confronted by angry groups, complaining about changes that have begun to impact their lives. FOX News is off the air. Health care has been made available to all. No one can buy a gun these days. And cash balances are all changed, most up, some down. There are definitely flies in the ointment.
Episode 7 Trouble
Malcontents in upper New York State attempt to bomb Stadium City. Tammy is torn about her personal life. Oscar is hospitalized with an undefinable condition. A suitcase is assaulted.
Episode 8 Democracy
People are drawn to Stadium City. They debate and accept a constitution governing life in the City. Oscar experiences remission and decides to live in the city. Tammy faces a big choice. Terrorism is announced defeated.
Episode 9 Terminal Illness
The world is threatened by something the suitcases cannot solve. Global panic ensues. The suitcases roll up their sleeves. The threat is averted when the suitcases announce that a solution is in place.
Episode 10 Solutions
Tammy rejoins Oscar. They moving toward being a family. The suitcases continue to provide information to the world. Many of the changes set forth in the original Jihad text are are now underway. They shelve the term jihad.
Stephen C. Rose has written a number of books(Fiction/Non-fiction). You can tweet him here.
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