“X Alice” by Aymie

Miss Alica Edwards

2 Thorn Avenue
New York,New York
10004

17th April 2075

Dear Sanity,

I thought that I should write to you because the way things are going right now scares me. I’ve seen these things on the news. Things about Ai, sort of.. cloning our world and adapting it, according to their “brilliant minds”. It was the talk of the school all day. People love the idea but it just sits wrong with me. It erases what humans are, our authenticity. Humans are all about journey, creativity, ingenuity, feelings. Ai takes away all that and just hands you answers, based on facts, thinking outside the box is so critical to change and improvement as well. Especially with something so dead inside, with no moral code, so intelligent that under the wrong hands it could be catastrophic. I’m scared we’ll lose our humanity, all these things that make us human. People do not like to remember. I don’t know, I’m probably overreacting and Ai will never “take over the world” I guess it just feels wrong to imagine an entire society leaning on it. X Alice


Miss Alica Edwards

2 Thorn Avenue
New York,New York
10004

20th July 2079

Dear Sanity,

I have lost you. I cannot even count on one hand the amount of times I’ve been to jail this month. Stupid, stupid robots. Everything has escalated so fast. I see them slowly infiltrate.. well, everything. But hasn’t been that bad so far, having them here, helping. Medicine has improved greatly (We found a cure to cancer!) and vehicles run more smoothly and efficiently than I’ve ever seen, but something about the whole thing still doesn’t feel quite right. That is why I’ve been protesting and also why I landed myself in jail so so many times. My mum bails me out though but how she hasn’t run out of money to do so, I don’t know. Since I’ve turned 18, I’ve been rather reckless actually, but I urge for normality again. No robots, basically, or at least robots we control fully. I can’t let it go and I shouldn’t, for humanities sake. Who knows what they could do? X Alice


Miss Alica Edwards

2 Thorn Avenue
New York,New York
10004

26th November 2082

Dear Sanity,

I’m starting to give up. I think I’m starting to see that my actions have no affect and I feel these robots keep on cornering me in, that I’m trapped in this automated government. I see them everywhere and that scares me even more. I think I’m one of the only ones that still thinks of them as outsiders, everyone else has welcomed them with open arms.The world seems better off with them here, but it’s only a matter of time before their sinister side appears. Nothing can be that perfect. And trust me, the second there is a bug or hole in their code I will feed said bug and deepen said until it the bugs infests every nook and cranny and their whole operation sinks down burning to rubble. Although maybe that a tad bit intense… X Alice


Mrs Alica Edwards

2 Thorn Avenue
New York,New York

5th December 2086

Dear Sanity,

The world is not better off. It is worse. You know, I miss her sometimes…that 15yr old with fire in her heart. I think she would have noticed it long before I did. Only when charlottes had disappeared did I realise. I checked the files on my sever at work and I found her, Lexi’s brain was sort of, loaded, on the computer. The police searched for her for days, no body to be found anywhere. Soon after a deep dive into the government’s server I found the same had been happening to many, all across the globe. All I had to do was cross reference missing kids into the server and up they popped. I never about Charlotte for I think it would have only pained her, or gotten her taken. I was right though, there is something sinister lurking in the shadows. All I can say is I’m terrified for what’s coming next. X Alice


Miss Alica Edwards

2 Thorn Avenue
New York,New York

12th Feb 2087

Dear Sanity,

They have been brainwashing people, my neighbour Emily Brooke, thought she was a parrot, started acting like one of them, are they stealing it?Her thoughts?Maybe I’m going insane?Where are you? X Alice


Miss Alica Edwards

2 Thorn Avenue

21rst June 2090

Dear Sanity,

It is getting more and more dangerous here.Perhaps I should go, I don’t think it’s safe for non-believers anymore. X Alice


Miss Alica Edwards

2 Thorn Avenue

14th Jan 2093

Dear Sanity,

I didn’t go.I should have, even if they did not let me I should have fought to leave. X Alice


Miss Alica Edwards

2 Thorn Avenue

2nd October 2094

Dear Sanity,

Will I be going to war?Maybe but it is sure I will lose.They are strong now, very strong.


Mrs Alica Edwards

2 Woodhill
Algale
37FR 5G4F

2nd October 2095

Dear Sanity,
I was right, they took away the journey. 01010100 01101000 01100101 01111001 00100000 01110100 01101111 01101111 01101011 00100000 01100001 01110111 01100001 01111001 00100000 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110.I am lost.01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 00101100.I am buried in this corrupt society. I should have fought hard enough 01100010 01100101 01100110 01101111 01110010 01100101 the line 01000010 01100101 01110100 01110111 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01110101 01110011 00100000 01100010 01101100 01110101 01110010 01110010 01100101 01100100 00100000. 01011000 00100000 01000001 01101100 01101001 01100011 01100101