Today on Quantum Vibe: Self-less machine as totalitarian overlord Strip 1319 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Tue 2016-04-12
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Colors: Lea Jean Badelles Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Hu Iz Alyss Roaz?
Quantum Vibe
A thousand years in the future, humanity has colonized worlds in nearly
100 galaxies, thanks to Quantum Vibremonic technologies developed five
centuries earlier. Other new technologies have created various
off-shoots of humanity and extended life expectancies five-fold. The
story begins with how a mad scientist and his plucky assistant, along
with their robot friend, brought humanity to the stars, and continues
with the adventures of some unique people in fantastic places.
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Panel 1
Sargon, Alyss and Bok. Alyss and Bok are both taking a sip of their drinks.
Sargon: So, one thing I've been wondering ...
Sargon: Those 19 Venus worlds that failed within 100 years … and the six still going ...
Sargon: What made the difference between those that failed and those that linger?
Panel 2
Alyss.
Alyss: Well, some would say this is my bias speaking, but ...
Alyss: The first 19 worlds were governed by humans. The super-computers were only used as tools to prescribe capital and consumer production and distribution goals.
Alyss: But when you take money out of society, it gets replaced by power-politics.
Alyss: Political goals super-ceded economic ones, and those worlds' material wealth suffered accordingly. The wrong goods were produced, distribution channels broke down, and so forth.
Alyss: The six remaining Venus worlds are run like Zytemonde.
Panel 3
Sargon, Alyss and Bok, who is looking thoughtful as he listens.
Sargon: So the only way a money-less economy can work at all is with a self-less machine as totalitarian overlord?
Alyss: Pretty much, it appears.
Bok: Woah, that's more or less what my father told me, before he was taken away.