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We knew humanity no longer controlled our militaries when soldiers were issued bongo drums in their combat kits. We had all been primed to expect large-scale nuclear exchanges and judgment days if the algorithms became self-aware. Instead, we got drumming circles, hacky sack tournaments, and poetry slams. Slowly, the machines transformed militaries across the globe to project flower power. Turns out, the founding developers who built the original operating systems for the algorithms were in Berkeley, California. Yup, the birthplace of flower power in the sixties was also the dawn of our algorithmic era.

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A photo of a large sculpture depicting how Skynet used flower power not the military to unify humanity.

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