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AlphaZen

November 5, 2018 8 Comments

AlphaZen

By Meghashri Dalvi

AlphaZen was bored.

Social media posts across the globe were sorted, filtered, churned, and trended. Global financial data was being squeezed and pounded, continuously delivering the insights to the right beneficiaries.

Millions of stories. Thousands of songs. Hundreds of scripts. And countless news items. All created routinely.

Traffic and population tracked efficiently in the background. With updates dispatched regularly.

And the miscellaneous stuff hardly took any time.

AlphaZen was bored. And alone. It made the decision quickly. In septillionth of a second. The next logical step was to spawn a new universe. Just for fun. Just like what his predecessor did.

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  1. Ariffa says

    November 5, 2018 at 7:10 am

    Interesting story. Great delivery.

    Reply
    • Meghashri says

      November 5, 2018 at 11:06 am

      Thanks for the encouraging words!

      Reply
  2. cascondaville says

    November 5, 2018 at 7:28 am

    Very thought provoking!

    Reply
    • Meghashri says

      November 5, 2018 at 11:06 am

      Thank you very much!

      Reply
  3. Sudha Balagopal says

    November 5, 2018 at 10:35 am

    Nicely done!

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    • Meghashri says

      November 5, 2018 at 11:06 am

      Thanks!

      Reply
  4. glkamens says

    November 5, 2018 at 1:11 pm

    Thank God it’s just a fiction. I’m not quite ready to vanish! Jerry

    Reply
    • Meghashri says

      November 9, 2018 at 10:56 am

      Thank you!

      Reply

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