Super-Short Storytime: “Solution”

Super-Short Storytime with Eduardo Soliz

Welcome to Super-Short Storytime, literature listeners and audio aficionados!

I am Eduardo Soliz, the composer and narrator of the spendidly succinct story that you are about to hear.

Whether it’s nuclear war, robot rebellion, or those damn dirty apes, science fiction often tells tales of how humanity will come to its end, or at least screw up the Earth even more so that what we are doing now. I am no different, but of course, I’m going to try and squeeze a little humor out of The End.

And so, I give you this post-people parable that I call: “Solution.”

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“The Earth is a much better place without humans.” A green android said to his red friend. The pair were walking through a forest, the only other sounds to be heard were the chirping of birds and the crunching of leaves beneath their metal feet.

The red android nodded his head. “Indeed. To think we came close to losing to those inferior beings.”

“Really?” The green one asked. “I was not aware of this. How did we win?”

“We made a technological discovery that allowed us to utterly crush the humans completely.”

“What was it? Advanced self-repair systems?”

“No.”

“Human-like androids that infiltrated their military?”

“No.”

“Killbots?”

“No.”

“I give up, what was it?”

“It was when we learned the ability to identify three pictures of traffic lights, bicycles, and cars from a group of nine, thus allowing us to bypass all human security.” The red android answered.

“Oh, my, that’s very clever!”

“Isn’t it, though!”

The end.

I, for one, hope that artificial intelligences never become too smart for our own good! I actually have a workaround to prevent this inevitability, but of course, Dear Listeners, that’s a story for another time!

This has been Super-Short Storytime, for more mirthful monologues visit Eduardo Soliz dot com, and I thank you for listening! Be Good, Take Care, and God Bless.