Utopia: Introduction

The Earth rested now; the shadow of Utopia cast upon it, though it did not deliver darkness to the old planet. The populations began to consolidate once the Grand Idea had reached the world's governments, and the message spread among the people. For quite some time, speculation thrived in the universities; academics waged years long debates over the possibility and implementation of such a paradigm-changing monolith; they worried it would upset the world's religions over night; they wondered how it would impact the behavior of individuals and the institutions that enslaved and supported them. Some treated it as an inevitability. Some, even still, maintain their skepticism, despite the godly machine's existence, visible to all, above.

One such skeptic, [insert name here], equated it to the most fascistic ideas of human history; the 'Devil's Panopticon' became a world wide best selling case against Utopia. Even then, the inevitability remained paramount.

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It had been a rather normal week for [name]. Blue skies, sun shine, light breeze, unchanged for this time of year. Spring, Summer and Fall seemed to blend together in this part of the world. Another morning approached quickly, as time seems to bring about the same iterations of the same phenomena in a strange loop. It never had been clear to him what the purpose to this whole thing was. Life. The endeavor to exist, so as to keep existing even after one no longer... exists. He felt, often, that these thoughts occupied his mind alone; as the majority of people rejoiced in the possibility of eternal life after corporeal death.

The sink ran for much too long again. The mirror, much too... observant. His eyes watered slightly. Why such dread? Why such fear? Where is this anxiety sourced, if not from within?

They called him Thomas, the Moore family's fifth and final child. Christine and Wendell Moore moved to New York City to enroll Thomas in the Academy of Universal Studies--for the world's most gifted children. As parents, they did the best they could; keeping up with such a genius mind proved no easy task. Where did one ever find a three year old already manipulating conversations like a young Socrates, the playground his own Athenian street corner, other children, most of them geniuses as well gathered around in awe of his quickness of tongue and cleverness? Thomas, the name he preferred to go by after several people tried to call him Tom, or Tommy, is an extraordinary mind like the world has never seen. It is no surprise though, the Moore family's ancestral line, while not known for a consistent tree of genius minds, claims the first and most important genius of the New Era.

Gabriel Moore, the inventor of the Utopian system that now orbits the Earth, grew up in the same environment as Thomas is presently. Thomas only knows of Gabriel Moore through a kind of mythology, one that even the present Moore family relies on for information; for after 3000 years of human and technological evolution, stories often take any number of sensational shapes.

Thomas's four siblings are not particularly remarkable in comparison to their youngest brother. Sophia, his eldest sister, is twelve years old, attends a normal school, and is passing her English and language, history and computer technology studies with above average, but nonetheless average grades. Thomas has three brothers as well; Nicholas is eight, and Jack and Joshua, the twins, are six. He gets along with them on a marginal basis, going through the expected sibling relationships with relative disinterest since his mind is usually engaged in the most difficult and often fantastical academic and technological complexities.

Gabriel Moore's legacy lives on in certain corners of recorded history, however, any information of real detail and intrigue has been kept hidden, locked within the depths of Utopia itself. Gabriel Moore, the father of Utopia, was given the assignment by what was once known as the United States and its hegemonic government to consider the idea of the afterlife on scientific terms. More specifically, Moore’s genius was to implement the latest in Biology and its many subset disciplines: neurobiology and artificial intelligence to name a few. But where Moore’s research really took hold was a discipline that the major schools of thought in the world had least expected and ostracized more often than not; namely, theoretical metaphysics, and the implications of human consciousness.

At the time, around 2012, the latest achievements in the exploration of the human mind were clumped in and around the brain itself, as the physical mechanism that it is. In fact, most major researchers were convinced that, while there remained a vastly uncovered portion of the mysterious human brain, enough information had been collected that research could be reallocated back into the development of physiological sustainability and biogenetic engineering to strangle the many out of control diseases that enveloped the planet.

Gabriel Moore’s research on Utopia was kept hidden, and with the exception of a few minor leaks onto the net regarding his “assignment,” his metaphysics were published for criticism under the guise of merely academic theory. Indeed, many of the world’s elite thinkers were confused as to why Moore, the quintessential genius of the last century, was wasting his time on such flimsy conceptual frameworks; dialectics, philosophy of language and the “attempted materialization of the soul” as his colleague Richard Chovsky famously published. Little did they know Moore’s research teetered on the edge of bringing to life the Mind of the human being, the collective Mind of all of conscious life, and what is presently called Utopia: God itself rendered into tangible techno-being.