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Saturday, November 25, 2023

Readers Theater; A Machine Mind Interface The Hecatoncheires

Act 1
Dr. Sigma unveils the Hecatoncheires, and explains how it interface with the 50 installed brain chips. His assistant Zeta volunteers to demonstrate.

Act 2
Dr. Sigma connects Zeta to the Hecatoncheires. She immediately begins exhibiting enhanced intelligence and knowledge well beyond her years. The test succeeds.

Act 3
In the following days, young Zeta starts amazing the world with her brilliance and measured IQ of 5,000. She claims it's from having 50 genius minds programmed directly into her brain.

Act 4
As Dr. Sigma publishes the Hecatoncheires research, demand grows. He starts a company to offer the brain augmentation service globally.

Act 5
A million people have used the technology. Society rapidly advances as these hyper-intelligent humans solve major world problems. However, personality changes start appearing in Zeta...

Act 6
Zeta struggles relating to ordinary people. The presence of 50 genius minds continually hardwired into her brain makes it difficult to connect with humans. She cannot turn off the constant influx of a billion alien thoughts and ideas.

Act 7
Zeta warns at a press conference that she feels herself being subsumed by the overwhelming intellect in her head. She starts losing grasp of her individual identity.

Act 8
Panic spreads about risk of identity loss. However, Hecatoncheires-enhanced people refuse to give it up. Tensions build between enhanced and normal humans.

Act 9 
 World leaders meet about the technology's fate. They decide removing it would lobotomize enhanced individuals. Zeta proposes a compromise instead.

Act 10
Zeta's solution - use Hecatoncheires temporarily before letting knowledge integrate into normal memory. This preserves identity while allowing brain augmentation benefits. Strict time limits are enacted. Transhumanism enters new era.

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