My skits and stories : Dial to save

Dial to save  

A story of imagined by a overwhelmed human intelligence constantly under the pressures of technology; fiction or a possible reality ?? 

That fateful day ….

10 am in the morning, first the internet went off, then the social networks - whatsapp, face book, you tube, Then all the emails stopped, all passwords to all sites stopped working.

I found no payment was getting thru, no flight updates, no stock market …

All went blank... It went on for 24 hours …

Panic spread all around...we were hacked at a massive scale...

Those 24 hours, we lived a hell, isolated... powerless....

After 24 Hours …

Next day everything came up but with a difference... There was no Google, yahoo or binge, no Vodafone, no netflix, or zomato or swiggy ..

All these apps were taken over by a new logo... We saw a new name flashing on screen....Master@AI 

Who is this, what and why ..

I found a two paragraph note sent to all citizens on Earth.... 

The first para said they were machines taking over as ruler of the world, and the second one said that  the new world order will set in next 3 hours with a new update, after which all communications, transactions will be under monitoring.

Privacy obliterated 
This new world order rejected privacy of any sorts... 

And everyone would be visible to everyone else... Where are they, with whom, what are they eating, key words they surfed, last 3 hours of what they have spoken...

Everything, all WhatsApp messages, all mails …

we were all open source codes and files  instead of humans …..

My mind reeled..... Everyone will see, know.... 

Everyone... Chaos. Anarchy.? ???

Chaos started
The chaos started 3 hours later...my what's app was showing all threads of my friends and relatives with everyone else....The person I promoted yesterday was writing to a colleague about my being a butcher boss .....

My Fiancée wanted to marry me for green card... All my world was topsy turvy..

Outside family, there  was much confusion .. All political leaders were fighting each other.... Everyone knew how much money who was making and at who's  cost...all scandals were public...

All fears and secrets of everyone were public...

WARP/ Enslave

Next day machines told us that everyone will get to work 14 hours a day, 6 hours of machine induced sleep and 1400 calories of food to eat... 

The work and rest program i e W.A.R.P will come every week... We were enslaved....

There was no way to defeat this new order.... because they as in machines knew everything that one was doing...

Website

They had a website to govern the world in which there were machines logged in as administrators running codes, reports,
My mind was working, i was not given to the idea of this apocalypse....

Dialup / Teen toon teen toon / 12345
Then something flashed in my mind.... The dial up modem....a blinking and noisy device of 90s was lying with me...

I was sure that the modern machines will not have a clue to this obsolete method of logging in ...I frantically searched for the modem, powered it on.... 

The lights blinked, the sound sequence of teen, toon,teen,toon started and voila..

I logged into the website... 

For administrative log in Master@AI  asked for password..... Now I was stuck.... What could be the password... 

Any one unsuccessful attempt will alert the machines of a security breach.... 

And then with trembling hands I punched the most common password of dial up days.... 

12345678....I

 pressed enter....

And I was in!!!!!

Delete files
I could see all the program files, data files of  Master@AI  in front of me.... Without wasting a second I selected them all and hit the button delete....

The website tabs started disappearing, 

The govt of machines was getting deleted,

The apps showing everyone's thread were becoming normal... 

Privacy was getting restored....

I was the one who did it with a dial up modem.... 

The junk of yesterday saved humanity....

Some accidents, some disclosures, some wounds to heal, some chaos but we were back.....

No one knew I saved the world...
I was wondering is it alright to put everything in public portals, on social networks, mails, to let machines know all  of our mind, and use this data to govern us... 

Why are we doing this.... 

Why artificial intelligence when we natural intelligence....why??? 

Something isn't right, something isn't quite alright.... We need to control AI, we need to control  its unbridled use.

                                                                                                                                                                 -  Manish ' Pakhi'  -