I used to be a big reader of science fiction but haven’t
tried to do much along those lines in my own writing. Lately I've been musing
over a few concepts for science fiction stories.
The ideas I have come up with are mostly just background to
a story rather than a story idea itself.
Interstellar Colonisation
I read some where that one possibility for interstellar
colonisation is to send interstellar probes that can use genetic technology to
recreate people on the new planet. To create a “normal” environment for these
children, the probe would create robots that would pretend to be adult humans
and act as parents for the new people. The story would be about a young person
slowly coming to realize that their parents are really robots.
Alien Watcher Probes
I’ve seen discussions about the possibility of there being
alien watcher probes sent to the solar system to study the Earth. I think some
people call them lurker probes. The monolith in 2001 is an example of the idea.
Over the millennia the probe would have collected a vast
number of videos and other data chronicling the history of Earth. These videos and
data would be of great interest to historians, and people who are interested in
history. Access to these could allow us to solve many of the mysteries of
history.
An AI Civilization Visits Earth
Another discussion I’ve seen is about the possibility alien
civilizations where the people have died off and they left their robotic AIs to
continue. Some people call these machine civilizations.
It struck me that it is likely that created AIs would have
no inner purpose other than to do what the people that created them told them
to do. With no one let to tell them what to do, they go searching for people to
tell them what they want done.
Didn’t Ancient Aliens Have Something Better to Offer?
I’ve read about the ancient alien hypothesis, where aliens
came to Earth and taught people how to create piles of rocks. The question that
came to my mind is “Why didn’t they give us something more useful, like flush
toilets?”
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