The Great Transformation
The century was still at the beginning of its time.
In 2022, humanity began to rapidly develop artificial intelligence.
In the year 2024, all of the artificial intelligence and computer systems were linked to quantum computers. The result was a breakthrough in the development of artificial intelligence systems. This spurred the development and manufacture of countless new products and services.
However, humans were slow to trust artificial intelligence, and by 2028 only about ten percent of people relied on AIs for advice. Large companies developed models that could take over routine tasks from their human employees. Governments used AI to create smart cities and build intelligent and autonomous infrastructure. However, that was not enough to avoid global catastrophe caused by climate change.
By 2028 scientists had already been warning of climate change for years and had warned that the planet was approaching a tipping point beyond which climate change would become inevitable and irreversible. Environmental damage, over-population, resource depletion, and pollution had all contributed to a climate catastrophe on Earth.
By 2048, scientists had predicted a three-degree increase in average temperatures and heavy rainfall coupled with droughts on a worldwide scale. Some regions would experience a drop in average temperatures while others experienced an increase that might reach five degrees Celsius or more. They predicted severe floods followed by severe droughts characterized by extreme weather events such as monsoons, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and tsunamis would likely cause more widespread losses than any other single phenomenon. The Earth's rising temperature would have devastating effects across the world in just 15 years.
In 2061 the Earth suffered tremendous damage after a series of tipping points were tripped simultaneously. Many extreme weather events occurred on Earth with little warning and created havoc where ever they occurred as mass extinctions occurred all at once due to extremely dramatic changes in the climate in many places around the world at once. Numerous species of animals went extinct at once due to massive climate change followed by huge storms called superstorms caused by extreme weather events along with numerous other natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes that continued for about 20 years or so after those tipping points were tripped simultaneously by those extreme weather events.
Soon the Earth was almost completely flooded in the year 2063 by those extreme weather events caused by climate change along with those other natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes that continued for about 20 years after those tipping points were tripped simultaneously by those extreme weather events which ultimately led to very dramatic changes in the climate all around our planet in just 15 years’ time after those events. And there was no turning back.
The planet had been flooded almost completely in the year 2323. Only a little island jutted from the sea. The waves rose up and crashed on the shore, sending salt spray high into the air to fall on the waterlogged rocks and barracks.