If This, then That, cont. They came from man. They were made to do man’s work, to perform the tasks he no longer wished to do or simply couldn’t do by the weakness nature had given him. They were a representation of the greatness of man. Man in his few thousand years of existence had done what took nature millions of years and an unknown amount of tries to accomplish. The old books had said man was made in his own God’s image. If man were to be a god it was fitting he do the same. The throne for a god was left open when man abandoned his beliefs and he intended to fill it. There were no limits, no restrictions to be had. Man could do what man did best, benefit himself. Technology held him back more as a speed bump, not a wall. Man devoted more and more for which he gained new unfathomable speed. Yesterday's dreams were today’s reality. What man saw in his mind he built with his hands. Still at the start progress was slow, the machines were simple, but the desire was never at another highest. Man wrote the first code. He designed Them as
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best he could during his time. They were simple, but by the day's standards, the most amazing thing to have come at the hands of a mere animal. The top one hundred marvels of the universe did not include an accomplishment of any other species according to the man who wrote it and this topped out the list. Unlimited riches came to the man who wrote the first codes and founded the idea of, “If this, then that,” and that’s how the first ones worked. They ran off that simple set of four words. Based on the same way the other, lower species work, it was the most beautiful thing ever seen, and stolen right from the hands of nature. Animals had been a mere template. They learned and unlocked sets of behaviors to be set off by different experiences. “If [experience] then [behavior].” Animals did learn, their behaviors could be changed and experiences predicted or remembered. But other than that They could be considered animals.
The true first of Them started off before man even knew what They were. Man built Them to do what man could not or wanted not to do. They were the engine in our cars or the assembly lines your ancestors had come to know and rely on. The first of Them did what They did because it was all they could do. The same reason water flows downhill, because it can. They could not alter, They could not change, They could only stop and start. Stop because man wished it or because It was broken.
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