Moving on

It’s often quietly mentioned, that initial connections to the human-to-human quantum network were not always so simple, so easy, or so safe. In the early days there were a number of formats that were supported for quantum IO. Fat128, EXT9 to name a few, but not among them was Hu400, the format natively supported by the human brain circa 2048.

The operation began and ended quite normally. The healing process as well, was without incident; the result of which was a small USB port, in the back of the head at the top of the spine. A process pioneered by French doctors and scientists, freshly celebrating the 15th anniversary of the second Revolution.

With hushed voices, the service responders told, during the welcoming and breaking-in of new interns, that due to the incompatible formats, humans, much to their dismay, were presented the option to format into a compatible format. Before they’d known it, regretting the moment they’d clicked agree, their vision goes slowly dark and then… so does everything else. It unfortunately bricked several early adopters.

Unfortunately at the time, backup mechanisms were not yet perfected, or a part of the pipeline. These were the experimental days, before the process was properly engineered. Many were lost forever, their bodies stood staring blankly, unfocused, and without reply. These blank hosts were later sold among the ultra rich, in the dark days before human write blocking was implemented in a mostly successful attempt to stop this practice.

Although there were many safeguards, and with practices updated in all the modern world, these stories served to warn those newly taking up the oath and responsibility to society, as well as to put their minds in the right place to perform the weighty task before them. Upgrading to the latest version of human, where our discourse is instant, and real Reason, as discovered by the ancient Greeks before being lost by the burning of the Library at Alexandria, Social Reasoning can take place. Instantly. Propelling humanity forward hundreds of years, culturally similar to a more truly neutral, version of Star Trek’s Borg.

The internal mental process goes a lot like that Futurama episode, Obsoletely Fabulous, where Bender unconsciously undergoes a journey of acceptance of the new fixture of his life before moving on in real time shortly after. The entire event being subjective, relative to that of the experiencing consciousness.