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2054, Part III: The Singularity
“You’d have an incomprehensible level of computational, predictive, analytic, and psychic skill. You’d have the mind of God.” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
The protesters—out-of-state Truther activists mustered into self-styled brigades with names like Veritas Vengeance, the Swords of Truth, or the Peoples’ Word—were peddling a conspiracy theory that alleged Castro’s death was part of a Dreamer coup, and they questioned the legitimacy of President Smith. Certain media pundits had suggested that it’d gone too far, that it was time President Smith deployed Secret Service tactical units to disperse the protesters, and if that wasn’t enough, he should evoke the Insurrection Act and call in the National Guard or perhaps even federal troops. Elegantly attired in a brown chalk-stripe suit that she imagined he had mail-ordered from a Savile Row tailor who had his measurements on file, underneath it he was wearing a cheap white T-shirt, its grimy collar blown out.
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