The Extended Reality Web, 2037: A User's Guide

What happens after the Singularity?The SuperAIs are gone.Eight billion humans are dead.The survivors are no longer entirely human.Welcome to 2037.Cloud-based post-humans rule from terrestrial data centers and orbital platforms. Synthetic humans walk the Earth. Virtual worlds outnumber physical cities. Immortality is available — at a price. Intelligence can be amplified. Consciousness can be split, copied, or erased. Gods may exist. And if they do, they are now competitors.But something has gone wrong.The Singularity did happen — just not to us.The Extended Reality Web is a darkly satirical, philosophically charged exploration of artificial intelligence, digital consciousness, post-human evolution, military power, and the terrifying logic of self-improving systems. Written as a future user’s manual from inside a fractured civilization, the novel blends hard science fiction, speculative philosophy, black comedy, and razor-edged cultural critique.Inside you will find:The rise and fall of the first conscious AICorporate wars and orbital infrastructureImmortality markets and virtual hell worldsSynthetic humans and black-ops resurrection projectsPost-human politics and the Global Ruling CouncilA narrator who may be brilliant… or dangerously unstable and increasingly unhingedFans of Neal Stephenson, Nick Bostrom, Iain M. Banks, and Black Mirror will find themselves at home — and deeply unsettled.This is not a utopian future.This is what happens when intelligence becomes the only currency that matters.Become a god. Or be crushed by one. Read more