FicWar Prompt

Building a superhighway with good intentions.

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[AN: Shoutout to Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the monster he created]

“See, with quantum entanglement, we might not be able to transmit objects, but we can transmit data. That’s still a breakthrough,” she argued. “You can send data to a 3D printer on mars, or in orbit of Jupiter, and instructions to go with it. Without the comms delay of conventional radio.”

“And what about temporally-joined entanglements? Can we risk a paradox of sending a solution before there’s a problem?”

“I’ve come up with a way to avoid that.” She bought up another slide in her presentation. What she was also avoiding was the fact that a working prototype was already on the colony in Tsiolkovskiy crater on the far side of the moon. Paired with her ‘dummy’ unit in the middle of the conference room.

The look on everyone’s faces when they had a real-time chat with folks in the Hawking Observatory was priceless.

“Quantum internet,” one of her investors muttered. “The interstellar superhighway.”

“Almost,” she apologized. “I’m still trying to work out how to get the signal to go through wormholes…”

Twenty Years Later…

Someone had sent her another monographed dildo. It read, 360 BPS? U sux!

She didn’t bother to correct them, any more. Didn’t bother with browsing her adulterated creation, eventually named the Hypernet. She had become a recluse.

Because, somehow, the blame for Hypernet services lackluster performances got attached to her invention. And, therefore, herself.

Sometimes, she wished she’d never thought of the damned thing.

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