ChrisM6484
Cadet
Hey everyone. Thanks in advance for any ideas you have that might help me.
I'm trying to find a short sci fi story I read sometime in the last year. I read it online and as far as I remember it was only published online. Here's the plot in short:
Sometime in the future man invents an AI-esque system that is used in a fast food restaurant to help the employees be more efficient. Eventually the system evolves to keep track of all employees in all industries and basically takes over the world. If you lose a job at one place, it's almost impossible to get a job anywhere else. The main character loses his job and ends up in a ghetto/prison for people like him with no hope of employment.
One day two women show up and offer the main character and his roommate passage to Australia, which has become a sort of AI-supported Utopia. They get these tickets because awhile back the main character's dad had bought stock for $1 million (I think) in the company proposing this Utopia.
The two guys go to this Utopia and the rest of the story is basically just talking about all the awesome things that happen there. The story is mostly just a vehicle for the author to talk about what he thinks the future is going to be like. It's not the best-written story, but the ideas are interesting and what I'm trying to find.
If you have any idea what this story is and can give me a link to it, I would be ecstatic. Thanks again for your help.
I'm trying to find a short sci fi story I read sometime in the last year. I read it online and as far as I remember it was only published online. Here's the plot in short:
Sometime in the future man invents an AI-esque system that is used in a fast food restaurant to help the employees be more efficient. Eventually the system evolves to keep track of all employees in all industries and basically takes over the world. If you lose a job at one place, it's almost impossible to get a job anywhere else. The main character loses his job and ends up in a ghetto/prison for people like him with no hope of employment.
One day two women show up and offer the main character and his roommate passage to Australia, which has become a sort of AI-supported Utopia. They get these tickets because awhile back the main character's dad had bought stock for $1 million (I think) in the company proposing this Utopia.
The two guys go to this Utopia and the rest of the story is basically just talking about all the awesome things that happen there. The story is mostly just a vehicle for the author to talk about what he thinks the future is going to be like. It's not the best-written story, but the ideas are interesting and what I'm trying to find.
If you have any idea what this story is and can give me a link to it, I would be ecstatic. Thanks again for your help.
