ephemera

aktorpoet.com/ephemera (microblog)

 Notion for a short story -- a time when AI has become so advanced and quick that every connection to the internet is mediated, but after a certain snapshot date, the user ceases to modify remote data at all, and the mediating AI simply spins out their world in relation to the rest of the world on the basis of that snapshot date, creating a totally individual but comprehensive timeline.  Eventually, every connection to the internet serves up an entirely different universe.