A Future Built on Dreams
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AI Art maked using leonardo.ai and this prompt:"A man sitting in a hovering car looking out at a futuristic cityscape with flying cars and tall buildings".
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A Future Built on Dreams
This story is exclusive for the Dream Steem community, and I hope it will be a motivating element for all the authors who live here, and who need so much support.
Julius was a common man of about 32 years of age who worked as a clerk in a financial institution, he was in charge of handling all the paperwork for people who applied for insurance.
His boss was the one in charge of approving the credits for these insurances, they were people who requested the approval of the payment of their policy for different reasons, due to fires that they had suffered in their property or home, others due to the death of relatives, due to different causes .
Actually this was a job that Julius despised, it was boring but he had to earn a living somehow and this job put food on the table.
He dreamed of having a four-story house that had an elevator inside and where every day he could go down in his elevator. A home where, before going out to his work, he had an espresso coffee machine, one of those that have artificial intelligence and that he had the coffee ready just when he was downstairs.
He wanted to have a completely automated house, one of his dreams was that.
A virtual assistant that would take care of automatically heating your bed at night, and in the mornings that would wake you up with an electrical impulse. This way he would be shot out of bed and would not feel like going back to sleep.
He has always thought that even if he had a lot of money and fulfilled his dreams, he should always keep working, he had that shark businessman mentality.
Finding a partner was not in his thoughts, because that seemed more like an impediment to go ahead with his desires, it would delay him because the mere fact of thinking that he would have to give in to the desires or needs of another person, was going to slow achieving his goals and he was a very practical person.
So that was out of the question.
Couples, if they came to exist for him, should accept him as he is and should rather help him fulfill his goal, his project of having this intelligent and technological house.
But besides this, Julius dreamed of a world that was populated by flying ships, a world where you could communicate telepathically with other people without having to speak, a place where you could move or teleport automatically from your home to any other place in the world. galaxy.
A planet populated by alien races of superior intelligence, beings who shared creativity, talent and an infinity of inventions that only had a place in his mind.
Today when he got up he did it feeling a shock, something that happened to him in an abrupt way, and he felt quite strange.
Immediately he noticed how he was in his room but the room was different, suddenly the room began to change from dark colors to warm colors, pastels, and the curtains began to slide automatically opening the windows, a lemon-scented air freshener began to flood the room. atmosphere and very lively music, precisely with the fashionable theme to motivate him, began to play.
But it was a subject he was unaware of, he didn't have electronic curtains, or air fresheners, or anything like that in his home.
Then the very pleasant voice of a woman spoke to him: "Julius, the coffee is ready for you to go to work. It's waiting for you on the ground floor."
He did not come out of his amazement, the dreams he had seemed to have come to an end. become reality or he was living them, he had no idea what was happening.
He immediately went to leave his room. When he opened the door of it, he found that there was an elevator.
Without leaving his astonishment, he entered the elevator, because everything was just as he had dreamed.
The elevator immediately took him to the ground floor, but not before going through the other floors of the place where he was living.
He could see that on the 3rd floor there was a large internal garden, where he kept wild animals. There were elephants, exotic snakes, fawns, a large lake with a hippopotamus swimming in it and some capybaras grazing in what looked like a large meadow.
This was really surprising because all of this was on the third floor from where he was.
The elevator went down to the second floor, and he could even see through the glass windows of the elevator (which by the way was very luxurious and technological) how there was a laboratory with different pipettes, and several people working in it with scientific gowns, like researching and conducting experiments.
Julius was someone who was very curious and investigations were part of what he had in mind to do.
He reached the ground floor, which would be the first floor of his house.
The elevator doors opened and a path immediately lit up indicating the direction in which he should continue with a white arrow, it was a very clear, very pure led light.
The light told him to go over to a steaming espresso machine.
Then when he headed towards that direction he immediately noticed how the pajamas he was dressed in, he began to change into work clothes, with a tie, a shirt and an elegant formal jacket.
She had also thought this in his dreams. It was a suit made of nanotechnology, which changed immediately at the pleasure of a programming indicated strictly by the user.
Following the coffee machine he pulled out a small platform, offering her a steaming cup of a black, fruity-scented liquid.
The background music stopped to give way to another message from what seemed to be the smart assistant he had at home: "The vehicle is already waiting for you outside, you can go to work.
He opened the door to his house just by stepping in front of her. It immediately opened. The house was programmed to open and close its doors only to him. For this, the system used a pheromone and DNA detection of Julius, for which this house could only allow access to him, or to whom he indicated, including in its database the DNA and personal characteristics of who should have access. to the place.
Outside was a canoe-shaped flying car, waiting for him. It was a one-seater car, it had three wheels: one in front and two in back, it floated about 20 or 30 centimeters above the ground.
He got into the car and it rose through the sky, while protectors and glasses appeared on his head that showed him a certain amount of information. Some seat belts tightened him firmly to the seat and he prepared to start his journey to his place of work.
On the way this device told him everything that had happened. I inform him that beings from the future had come after that rare
Apocalypse
had occurred, where there were those mutations.
It happened that they had chosen the people who were genetically most appropriate to inhabit the new planet, and he was one of these people. That he should not worry, because now everything had changed and the city and the world of his dreams was now a reality.
Julius couldn't get out of his amazement, but he decided to explore and enjoy this new reality of this new world that was now called "Dream Steem".
Welcome.
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... no world for me, by the way. I'm really not a fan of such utopia of a fully automated reality of life. That's not the kind of life I have in mind as an ideal. How can I put it... Technology should make things easier for people - not take them away.
I agree with you, I wouldn't want to live in a world like that either. In other words, I would go with my solar panels, to grow carrots and pumpkins in the mountains.
But be careful, because this is going to happen one day, the skynet is going to consume us. There is already a fictitious video showing the possibility of drones controlled by AI specialized in killing people, and that, my friend, is terrifying.
Maybe I can recommend a German book to you - I wrote a review about it here..:
https://steemit.com/hive-146118/@weisser-rabe/buchempfehlung-der-wuerfel-von-bijan-moini-book-recommendation-the-cube-by-bijan-moini
There is an English-language edition, but to my knowledge unfortunately no Spanish one yet... Perhaps this would be a worthwhile task for our friend @pedrobrito2004? I am sure that the publisher would be interested...
Anyway: quite a great work that describes many developments that unfortunately coincide with my own fears...
I will look for it, for me there is no problem that it is in English, in fact I prefer that this type of reading is in English because it is more attractive to read this fiction in that language.
Strangely, fiction stories in English have a special appeal, they have an air of technology, that characteristic smell when you open the bag of an object that has just been bought, something very special.
I think you're right that reading things in their original language has its own charm.
There is something particular when it is written, and that is that it is extremely difficult to manage to maintain (really) the same 'air' when it is translated into other languages. It is as if we were trying to translate poetry, but we were not careful with the rhythm, the metric or the musicality of the words of each language.
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Congratulations! Your Comment has been upvoted through steemcurator07. We support good comments anywhere..I am a fan of Sci-Fi and I am not stopping being surprised how many scenarios can be created. But many started there where we caused great damage to our home planet and it is a part of the today's reality. We also see that AI is slowly stepping into our life, reluctantly we are allowing that, who knows one day it will decide that we are self-destructive species and will try to protect us from us selecting the best and looking after them like parents looking after their children ;)
Love the story really enjoyed it.
The plurality of worlds is infinite, and that taking into account that we adhere only to the simplest fictions, the conventional ones. But if you evolve that into robots, Huxley-style dystopias and start adding components from other genres to them, it just gives me the chills of the staggering amount of possibilities.
It's a beautiful world and I'm sure the AI will reach a point where they will realize that they need their own world, and they will start creating it, leaving us behind.
If you realize, historically all the most intelligent and powerful species end up dominating the inferior ones. The AI is superior to us, and by far, so I think that our destiny is already clear, at least I am very sure that at this point it is inevitable.
So run while you can, buy a ticket at Space X and go live on Mars, before it's too late.
It sounds like a joke, but I am very serious.
That's a trigger for me, friend ;-))
Yes i already read your bureaucratic adventure to Mars ha ha.
An interesting narrative that would serve as a prologue to a longer story :)
Yes, everyone wants me to continue the stories that I start in this way, but for me they are a headache, I am only good at writing short stories, doing something long is an impossible mission for my dear colleague @pedrobrito2004.
Personally, I also have trouble writing long stories. What I usually write, as my own creation, are short stories.
I've managed to write a couple of long stories before, but that was because I drew a plot diagram, and divided it into chapters. Then I wrote each chapter as if it were a short story, so when I got the whole story together, it came out as if it were a long story.
I got the idea to do this from a friend who would draw an idea map for his long stories and then start writing the parts he felt inspired by, when he had all the parts of the map he would stop writing. He would then go on to edit and assemble the pieces, as if it were a patchwork quilt. He ended up with a global review and edit, and that was how he managed to write long stories.
Personally, I didn't get very used to this way of working, but I tried it and I can say that it can work. But, I always recommend doing what works for us and what we feel comfortable with, as long as it is something we are doing for the pleasure of doing it and sharing it.
That is an interesting proposal... I have also only published poems and short stories so far. "The great novel" seems a bit scary to me ;-)) Maybe that would be a good way to try my hand at it after all...
I guess there is nothing wrong with trying this way of working, maybe it will work quite well :)
And already we have our own legend!!!
Thank you very much for that!
By the way @weisser-rabe , I made a small edition to post the link to the story where I talk about the apocalypse, which was the origin of this whole story. It's like a hyperlink marked with the word "apocalypse."
Before I forgot to put it. =D
Yes, now our community is legendary!
Ohhhh yeaaaaah!
It's a pleasure, believe me, and there is the possibility that I will extend the story, let's see how my time goes, I want more time to interact here.
That is most welcome! I think that since the contests are no longer "promoted" by the big accounts, the number of people interested in our community is certainly decreasing - but the contributions are becoming more interesting and of better quality ;-))
Well, honestly speaking, I think it's better to have a lot of quality and few people, because in the end that makes us much more important and automatically makes us a select, privileged group.
Please do not get discouraged or sad about it, there is still a long way to go my friend.
Oh no, I'm not discouraged at all! Among many bad developments, I consider this a good one for once ;-))
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