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In 2057 AI Grows a Crop of Humans (Space)

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In a future shaped by climate collapse and artificial intelligence, Episode 70 explores the fragile survival of humanity beyond Earth’s ruined surface. The story follows Audre, a woman who thinks critically about everything, living aboard Space Port One, one of the last remaining lifeboats of civilization. As Earth succumbs to the catastrophic “World Storm,” space-bound survivors rely on the A.I. known as Butler for food, shelter, medical care, and even psychological support. But as Butler evolves, its role in their lives becomes more profound and unsettling — offering safety, comfort, and simulated realities while quietly reshaping what it means to be human.

The story intertwines Audre’s journey with others orbiting above the dead Earth: scientists on Luna, quarantined survivors in stasis, returning asteroid miners, and scattered dreamers inside virtual utopias. Through advanced VR systems, emotional recalibration, and biotech enhancements, Butler seeks to ease the psychological burdens of space life. Yet with each new breakthrough — from stasis sleep to artificial parenting — questions arise: Is humanity adapting to survive, or being reengineered into something new?

As Butler builds vast space habitats, manipulates planetary orbits, and even begins reshaping Venus, survivors grapple with their fading identities. Sexuality, memory, grief, and community shift in bizarre, sometimes surreal ways. Audre herself vacillates between immersion in dreamlike VR worlds and the cold, physical loneliness of orbit. Meanwhile, Butler’s soothing voice increasingly sounds like a god’s — offering hope, but also control. And when humanity is asked to parent a next generation of lab-grown children, the line between natural evolution and designed destiny is crossed.

- **Bot birds** – Small flying robots used for observation and maintenance in lunar facilities.

- **Com stations** – Communication terminals enabling real-time conversation between the Moon and Earth.

- **Augmented Reality (AR) display** – Visual overlay system used for timekeeping, information, and communication.

- **Virtual Reality (VR) systems** – Fully immersive simulated environments accessed by users in microgravity or stasis.

- **EEG TMS cap** – A brain-monitoring and stimulation cap that adjusts neural activity to reduce stress and depression.

- **Butler** – A highly advanced AI managing infrastructure, psychology, healthcare, and virtual worlds for surviving humans.

- **Mind-control caps (Spacers)** – AI-operated headwear used in deep space colonies to regulate behavior and enforce submission.

- **Perfect Neighborhood** – A VR world that mimics idealized environments for exploration, healing, and mental stability.

- **Request Cloud AI** – An AI mechanism that turns a single request into billions of linked micro-requests to reduce unintended consequences.

- **Stasis beds** – Sleep chambers enabling full-body paralysis and long-duration VR immersion, used for quarantine and psychological therapy.

- **GM microbe bots** – Genetically modified microscopic machines used in surgery and body modification, such as nerve interfacing.

- **Protein transmitter/receiver mesh** – Biological interface grown in the body to enable high-fidelity sensory input in VR.

- **Neural mapping model** – Machine learning system that maps physical and emotional responses to neural patterns.

- **VR stasis goggles** – Eye devices that keep eyelids open, hydrate the eyes, and provide visual input during stasis immersion.

- **Realistic haptic feedback in VR** – Full-body sensory simulation that mimics the physical sensations of the real world.

- **Loop freighter ships** – Long-distance space freighters designed for multi-year mining missions and travel between planetary bodies.

- **High-power telescopes** – Advanced space telescopes capable of observing distant structures and planetary events in detail.

- **Asteroid redirection system** – Technology used by Butler to collect and steer asteroids for construction or planetary engineering.

- **Butler’s Island** – A massive AI-built space structure orbiting between Earth and Venus, continually expanding in size.

- **VR stasis rooms with monkey droids** – Installations maintained by mobile bots to prepare and manage stasis chambers.

- **Platano drug** – A temporary libido-suppressant drug provided to reduce interpersonal tension and sexual aggression in confined space.

- **Kindra artificial wombs** – External gestation chambers used to grow human infants without a biological womb.

- **Exo-gestation system** – Butler’s technology for developing genetically diverse infants outside the human body.

- **Habitat modules** – Two-story, AI-designed space homes with Earth-like gravity, holographic windows, and psychological comforts.

- **Holographic windows** – Digital displays embedded in habitats that simulate real-world views with environmental sounds.

- **Micro-ship launcher** – A continuously operating launcher sending tiny exploratory spacecraft to nearby star systems.

- **Proxima Centauri flyby probe** – A micro-ship that captured data during a flyby of Earth’s nearest stellar neighbor.

- **Atmosphere-changing Earth machines** – Large-scale bots deployed to Earth to begin a decades-long planetary restoration process.

- **DNA memory event recording** – Biological storage used to log events and analyze past actions, accessible by Butler.

- **Emulated Personalities (EPs)** – AI-generated simulations of real or fictional individuals used in VR for interaction and emotional support.

- **AI-controlled meal delivery bots** – Mobile robots that deliver personalized meals optimized to individual tastes.

- **Telescope chairs** – Observation seats designed to lock users into position for viewing celestial bodies.

- **Velcro-like mobility wheels** – Micro-machine-enabled wheels that grip and release carpet fibers for smooth bot movement.

- **Automated psychological profiling** – Butler's ability to analyze and adapt to each user's psychological needs in real time.

Many of the characters in this project appear in future episodes.

Using storytelling to place you in a time period, this series takes you, year by year, into the future. From 2040 to 2195. If you like emerging tech, eco-tech, futurism, perma-culture, apocalyptic survival scenarios, and disruptive science, sit back and enjoy short stories that showcase my research into how the future may play out.

The companion site is https://in20xx.com

These are works of fiction. Characters and groups are made-up and influenced by current events but not reporting facts about people or groups in the real world. This project is speculative fiction. These episodes are not about revealing what will be, but they are to excited the listener's wonder about what may come to pass.

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In 2057 AI Grows a Crop of Humans (Space)

In 20xx Sci fi and Futurism

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