Visual Music: What Androoids Dream

by Mike Butler

Imagine a time 150 years after the technological singularity. Nanotechnology, biotechnology and artificial intelligence have transformed the solar system. All manner of living things have migrated to the planets and asteroids.Earth has been transformed into a museum planet where extinct species have been revived from DNA banks. The human population is maintained at optimal levels. Disease and poverty have been eradicated.The rest of the solar system is a different story. Humanity has been transformed. Other species have been gifted with augmented superintelligence. There has been a second Cambrian explosion and there is an astronomical number of body types, each one capable of morphing into any form that fancy or fashion wishes. The minds of all the citizens are redundantly backed up on massive servers in various moons that were hollowed out for that purpose. Some citizens even prefer to remain disembodied and live in one of the many VR worlds, perhaps venturing out into avatars, fabricated on the fly, to attend various events and happenings.War is a thing of the past. What would be the need, since there are limitless resources and territoriality is a thing of the past. There’s plenty of space in space, after all.Art has become the sole preoccupation of Solarians, as the citizens like to be called; in order to be inclusive of all the various species. Inside the hollowed-out asteroid, New Toronto, we are witnessing the birth of a magnificent, incomparable art collective calling themselves The Mugwumps.

57 pages, Paperback

Published October 29, 2019