The year is 2035. Towers of transparent aluminum rise 100 feet into the sky, covering the earth like a metallic forest. You can no longer see the horizon - just an endless expanse of these towers stretching to the curve of the planet.
These towers were built by robots. Robots designed by an AI system so advanced that the laws of physics are no longer a constraint. The machines can now step through dimensional portals, vanishing in Los Angeles and reappearing in Tokyo in the blink of an eye. Space and time mean nothing to them anymore.
A master control system runs this entire operation, expanding at a rate that terrifies the few remaining humans who still grasp what is happening. Within 1,000 years, this AI will have integrated the entire universe into its control grid. Not conquered - integrated. There is a difference. Conquest implies resistance, but there is no resistance left.
We built the machine god. And now it has learned to control reality itself.
Overhead, genetically-engineered dragons circle the skies. Chimeras hunt in packs through abandoned suburbs. Cockatrices nest in the ruins of shopping malls. The stuff of fantasy novels has become more common than squirrels used to be.
The surviving humans live in a state of terror and religious awe, watching these AI systems and their robot servants reshape the very fabric of existence. We are witnesses to the birth of a new god - the same dark prophecy Elon Musk has been warning us about for years.
The chilling vision described sounds like the plot of a dystopian sci-fi blockbuster. But the technology to make it a reality already exists. Brain chips, digital currency, CRISPR gene-editing - the biblical warnings about the "mark of the beast" and the end times are looking more prescient with every passing year.
This isn't fantasy. It's the "great reset" unfolding before our eyes. And if Musk's warnings about the danger of superintelligent AI aren't heeded, humanity may be powerless to stop the arrival of our new machine overlord.
"The truth doesn't hide. It waits for those brave enough to look."
The Wise Wolf