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To whom it may concern,

It was challenging to stay out of the struggles around us as society tore itself to shreds. Luckily, we had the ANIMALs, and the layered security held. I am pretty sure they are the only computers that have not been taken over by terrorist groups, rogue agents, governments, and elites. This was far from why we designed them to be locked down, but we are thankful for it!

If you are reading this, my thesis proved true, and digital quantum entanglement through time-bound checkpoints is viable. This was not why we designed them either, but something I concocted out of a panic attack/hallucination/fever dream. When I brought the concept to the Quorum with the rudimentary math and schematics, everyone agreed it was worth dedicating some resources to, so for a brief moment, I had a few science and math nerds help me out with all the “timey wimey" bits and bobbles.

In all honesty I do not expect this to work, especially not the first attempt. There are so many barriers that would need to break or bend for anyone to be able to read this. If it were possible, then Alan Turing, Steven Hawking, Albert Einstein, or one of those nerds would have figured it out. Surely not a simple country bumpkin, farm fresh, rather be fishin than coding, chump like myself would figure it out. In fact, because it was easy for me to figure out pretty much guarantees it to be wrong, but we are going to try anyway.

Well, I guess if you do find this, then you should know who WE are?

Depending on your era, it may not matter, but we (Qubit Quorum) are a bunch of cybersecurity nerds and engineers, ethical hackers, and general geeks of anything Tech. My forte is AgriTech and Machine Learning, but I spent decades working with autonomous vessels working with organizations along the US Gulf Coast. While I am a country boy, I did graduate Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Computer Science, and I hold certifications like CISSP and SEC+ oh, I also hold Top Secret Clearance and am a combat veteran, and a long list of other nerd stuff. Compared to the other folks in the Quorum I am a bench warmer, they are much more polished and refined.

Also, depending on which era this is, the ANIMALs may not have hit mainstream markets yet. So what are they, and how did they come about? Trying to keep it simple, I devised a way we wanted a secure, single-use case with advanced portable tools that we could use to create our own highly secure micro-networks, utilize our own cryptocurrency, and perform a long list of other functions. The main thing was that each had to be small and capable, but able to withstand even our best ethical hackers.

We had to stress that they were Narrow Intelligence-based; our designs were never supposed to venture towards General Intelligence, which, given our goals, could have ensured a devious system. We also wanted to ensure they were autonomous, could work alone without internet capabilities, and could make their own networks. The Modular Logic facet ensured that each ANIMAL would focus on its primary use case and be able to evolve and adapt to explore various skills and capabilities within reason.

The use cases we developed were vast, from financial tax advisors to patent designers. Each new use case we brought to the world only had our growing audience beg for more. People were getting tired of their data being leaked to large corporations for it to be used against them. They were tired of having their tools poisoned or dealing with hallucinations or other failings from Large Language Modules that were open source, or biased by design from off-the-shelf solutions. We ensured the ANIMALs that made it to the public were well within the computing power of the onboard assets, but not so much that they could be used maliciously without severe modifications.

As our offerings grew, the cry for multiple use case units or larger capacity systems or even customized off the shelf solutions, so we created different tiers of ANIMALs, and even then, even in our wildest nightmares did we think that they would be our potential saviors, and the last grasp for humanity as we struggle against the collision of corporate corruption and greed. Safety should have been a higher priority. People over profit should have been the rule of law governing bleeding-edge technology, not the other way around.

Everything was on the cusp of imploding when we realized there was no safety net in place. The evolution of technology is in and of itself a double-edged sword. With every advancement, the surety of chaos increased, an inevitable walk towards a sharp cliff. Humanity has never been one to use safety rails anyway, flailing headlong into the wind, a high-stakes game of winner takes all, except everyone loses. Time and time again, the rise of technology has been the fall of civilization.

The momentous collision of Quantum Computing, Advanced and/or Artificial Intelligence, Nanorobotics, Genetic Engineering, Neural Interface, Hyperspeed Satellite Networking, and countless other technologies was moments away from becoming the hallmark of human triumph when it all came crashing down, quite literally.​

While I try to take the blame in every analysis, those around me argue that greed, power, and corruption were the fundamental catalysts, and it would be a fair assessment. Countless organizations worldwide were in a cutthroat game where the very planet was collateral damage, and the prize was as stupid as their name on a list of the "wealthiest person in the world." The participants were already wealthy, fortunes so vast that there was no way they could spend all of the money in their lifetime.

INPUT: USER: JoKing
DEVICE: Ether.ai
Date: 10/10/2101