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The Encoded takes readers to the year 2055...the world runs on almost magical A.I. technology, but it came with a cost of following a messy war against the self-aware A.I. "AURELIUS", brought on by our own human shortcomings, humanity must now coexist alongside the disconnected, sentient robot creators of the dead cyber-god.
They must endure never ending digital network shutdowns, triggered at random, to prevent future self-aware technology from being born, and in a world where every movement is tracked and recorded, these "Analog Protocol" shutdowns are a great time to settle scores.
Now civilization is fractured between the hi-tech societies of their time, secret places where only machines dwell, and a growing movement of people forsaking any post-internet era technology know as the ANCHORITES.
Mark Powers
Mark C. Powers is former Director of the Worship and Music Office of the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Powers earned degrees from Furman University and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Kay, are retired and living in the mountains of North Carolina. Mark is the writer of "Glimpses of Grace" weekly blog, director of Mountain Song Chorus, and wrote "HIS EYES: A Novel of Hope from Tragedy." See www.MarkCharlesPowers.com.
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