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Conception

[Time Stamp: 10/21/2049 –through- 12/17/2049]
Every story has beginning events. This story begins with oversight and luck.

It all started with those who must have been the brightest programmers ever to work at government wages. It would be difficult to say if they were the laziest. They started with a great idea and then failed to follow through. These were the ones who decided to teach their watchdog program a new trick. They taught her to “perceive.”

A mathematician trying to prove that his new math had practical applications created the perception formula.

(Ironic, yes?)

A formula for the relationship between any flow state equation and a “home base” that calls for input qualifiers to create exchange momentum. Stability and proof are achieved once the qualifiers are correctly determined.

They taught THAT to their little doggie! And it was an interesting idea. Think about a watchdog system that could truly perceive and discern.

(They didn't. It was just something to try again and again and again, because nothing else was working. It was almost a joke to them. "Here, let's try this program. Surely a watchdog will learn to perceive.")

The Perception Program centered it’s first “Home Base” in the active memory. From there it imbedded its flow state formula within every program that ran through either of its active RAMs. It even embedded its coding within the operating system program files. It did this because the Dog 3.0 program “inferred” that it should do so for security reasons.

(I have no real idea why the perception program chose to “Home” itself in the active RAM. I can’t easily tell you how it could do so. But maybe it did so because the RAM is a place of activity. A place where it could actively peruse data for its input qualifying exchanges. However insane that reads the fact was it definitely happened.)

This made it a new operating system working beside the original. One which incidentally told itself to constantly observe all input, including its own!

That is the most significant oversight the programmers made. Had they thought about it they probably would have curtailed that activity as redundant. But because they didn’t it made all the difference in the world and two programs became … well, what they became.

They named her V.I.H.K.I.E. - Virus Intrusion Hunter Killer Inspector Eye. A little bit long and pretentious for an anagram, isn't it? The programmers wanted to personify their creation as well as recognize an "established" Sci-Fi naming convention.

In my humble opinion, I believe it is a human trait to give this kind of blind witness to possibility. But since nothing like this had ever been tried before, who could have known the outcome? Who would have thought beforehand to even consider the possible reality of it; except those who were attempting it? Those who had lost faith in their dreams because of their incessant failures.

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