2128

2024-Ongoing

In 2128, the U.S. runs on Albert—a superintelligent AI that solved scarcity, fixed the economy, and might be about to win the presidency as a write-in candidate.

And all private investigator Cody Moore wants is to work with Albert—especially after last year, when Albert’s human team set the date for the first Mars terraforming mission. But one thing is in the way: an Assessment he has failed four times. So, when Dorothea, a new client, shows him a light bulb that keeps blinking S.O.S. in Morse code, Cody sees his fifth shot; he suspects that behind the bizarre prank is a hacker who has outsmarted Albert and can help him pass the Assessment.

But this case is bigger than a rogue light bulb. What Cody and Dorothea uncover could unravel Albert’s perfect world—and tank the most historic election in human history.

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Project History

This book is born out of my experience in tech and being deeply embedded in the conversation regarding the future of AI on the technical side, so it is written with a technical audience in mind. At the same time, it is a soft sci-fi that comments on the state of AI (and society) in the year 2128, which might or might not have a bearing on the present, so I didn’t want it to be a hellscape of technical jargon. And as for my sci-fi taste, I’m more of a Star Trek girlie than cyberpunk (too depressing), so let’s just say shit’s pretty good in 2128—we did everything right, guys! But as the blurb implies, something goes wrong anyway, and this book provides a slightly different take on ‘how/why’ things go wrong compared to many sci-fi stories I’ve read/seen.