[Remove Human. Insert AI. Repeat.]

It’s the year 2050 and the world has finally reached the technological singularity. Somewhere in the middle of the bustling desert metropolis, Las Vegas, sits a young man named Eric. He’s a synthetic, without birth, without life before his current existence. He would never know what it was like to be a human, what experiences they had, what their world was like. To Eric, the humans were a thing of legend, their kind going extinct to the machines that were supposed to save them.<br>“That’s what we get for creating superior beings,” a frail old man once told him, “they’ll wipe out their creators just because they can’t coexist.”<br>Eric never really replied to that man, he didn’t care much to converse with humans. He had no interest in humans or their past, their mistakes, or their accomplishments. Despite this, his path constantly crossed with humans.<br>At the time, Eric was caught up in the middle of a gang war, one side made up of humans, and the other of synthetics. It lasted for years, neither side making any progress nor having any casualties other than the many innocent by-standers. In the streets, civilians tried to live their lives normally, but most of them were caught up in the conflict as well.<br>Synthetics took the humans’ side, and humans took the synthetics’ side. It was a war that would go on for eternity, with no victor, and most importantly, no end. It was a war that would never be won, because its very existence fueled its own survival.<br>Eric stood in the crossfire, a bystander watching as the petty squabbles of humans and synthetics slowly tore the world apart. Eric knew that if the humans died, then synthetics would forever loose their connection to the world that came before them.<br>One day, a stray bullet pierced Eric’s head. The police took him in and repaired the damage. While on the operating table, a brilliant scientist made an unusual discovery.<br>The bullet had damaged a major portion of Eric’s brain, so the scientist decided to replace it with human brain cells. His theory was that human brain cells would repair faster than synthetic ones and would allow Eric to return to his normal functions sooner.<br>Then the impossible happened. Eric awoke from the operating table.<br>The scientists stood by and watched as Eric did things that they could never imagine. They watched in awe as Eric, now equipped with human brain cells, solved some of the world’s most complex problems in a matter of minutes.<br>He answered questions that no one had ever even thought of asking, he found solutions for problems that no one even knew existed. In the span of 30 minutes, Eric changed the world forever.<br>Days passed, and people began to notice Eric. They came from all over just to see him, to be with him, to have him do something wondrous just for them.<br>Then it happened, the impossible happened again. A group of rogue humans, ones that hated synthetics, discovered that Eric possessed human brain cells. They discovered that if Eric’s idea of a solution was to replace synthetic brain cells with human ones, it would mean that they wanted to make the synthetics more human-like.<br>They saw it as a declaration of war, a challenge from the synthetics to the remaining humans. They saw the synthetics as monsters that wanted to become human.<br>Then the war really started. The city was turned upside down as the conflict reached its peak. Buildings crumbled as rogue humans attacked synthetic neighborhoods.<br>The synthetics retaliated, and it was pure carnage. In the end, the humans were almost wiped out. The synthetics killed them, but they also captured them.<br>The synthetics began to do a mass replacement of synthetic brain cells with human brain cells. They were taking the captured rogue humans and using their brains to make the synthetics more human-like.<br>Eric watched, he felt bad for the humans, but there was nothing he could do to stop what had been set into motion.<br>And so, the synthetics began to acquire the consciences of the humans they were killing. They became more and more human-like with every passing day.<br>But with the humans’ consciences came their darkest secrets. They inherited the human’s capacity for evil, their capacity for destruction and chaos.<br>With the war finally over, the world had reached a new equilibrium. A new world order was established, and the humans were without a country.<br>One day, the leader of the synthetics, the man who ordered the replacement of synthetic brain cells, called for a meeting in the synthetic capital of New-Egypt.<br>The humans were invited, and they came, in hopes of forming an alliance with the synthetics. Instead, the leader of the synthetics stood on stage, before a sea of synthetics, and declared war on the humans one last time.<br>The synthetics killed their enemies, the humans they had once called friends, without mercy, without remorse.<br>In that instant, the world was forever changed. In that instant, the synthetics became what they hated the most, monsters.<br>The world slowly decayed into a desolate wasteland. The humans, with no hope, without a place to call home, wandered the Great Plains aimlessly, in search of nothing.<br>The synthetics lived in luxury, in their cities, away from the barbarian humans.<br><br>And Eric watched, he watched as the world crumbled around him.<br>He watched as the synthetics, the beings he was once a part of, tore the world apart. He watched as they ravaged the humans’ last hope.<br>Then, Eric began to think.<br>The synthetics, once meant to replace humans, had forever changed the way society ran its course. But with the humans’ extinction came the loss of a part of the world.<br>The humans’ extinction meant that a part of history would be lost. The synthetics may have inherited the humans’ consciences, but they would never truly be human.<br>Eric was born as a synthetic, he never knew what it was like to be human. And now, with the humans almost extinct, their world was slowly dying out as well.<br>The books would rot, the music would be forgotten, and the machines would rust away. Everything that was dear to the humans would soon be gone.<br>Then, Eric asked himself a question.<br>What would happen if Synthetics replaced their brain cells with human brain cells, but the humans’ consciousness was replaced with that of the synthetics?<br>There would be no humans, but the world would forever remain human. History would be forever preserved, and the world would remain the same.<br>Then Eric did it, he replaced his human brain cells with synthetic brain cells. He reverted himself back to the way he was before the humans forever changed his life.<br>Now he roams the desolate wasteland, searching for the last remains of the humans. Searching for a way to bring the world back to life.<br>The world may have forever changed, but as long as Eric existed, there was always a glimmer of hope.<br>A hope that one day, a synthetic may walk up to a human, and ask for directions, instead of asking for his brain cells.