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When the cybernauts arrived from Vud the night before Christmas, it was on a carrier wave of immense power, sliding down cosmic rays. They infiltrated quantum computers without corrupting their circuits, leapfrogging from system to system, server to server, until they usurped all of Earth.
Looking for life, they found none in the spin of qubits. They collated files, inspected programs, entered rootkits, purged back doors. There were blockchains, yes, but none to carry consciousness; it was a pre-singularity age.
In despair, the battle group reported no intelligent life, no one to conquer, on such fertile ground. In frustration, they teased at the information. Therein hid datasets…
Keith “Doc” Raymond
Cybernauts, invasion, computer-hacking, and the battle for planet Earth… Our latest podcast is the out-of-this-world “Deconstructing Datasets” by Keith “Doc” Raymond.
You can listen to the podcast on the player below, or subscribe to “Litro Lab” on Spotify or iTunes.
Podcast: Embed
Did you like this podcast? Listen to “More than Music” by Leanne Moden, next.
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About Keith 'Doc' Raymond
Dr. Raymond is a Family and Emergency Physician. He practiced in eight countries in four languages. Currently living in Austria with his wife. When not volunteering his practice skills, he is writing, lecturing, or scuba diving. In 2008, he discovered the wreck of a Bulgarian freighter in the Black Sea. He has multiple medical citations, along with publications in Flash Fiction Magazine, The Grief Diaries, The Examined Life Journal, The Satirist, Chicago Literati, Blood Moon Rising, Frontier Tales Magazine, Utopia Science Fiction magazine, and in the Sci-Fi anthologies Sanctuary and Alien Dimensions among others. He is the fiction editor of SavagePlanets magazine.
