Going beyond these highly plausible near future abominations, the story begins to ask about what would ever stop a “Strong AI” from developing, an AI that would itself become like God because it would have access to every camera hooked up to the Internet, all information on the Internet and all the predictive algorithms. Would it try to create a paradise for humanity, or perhaps a Hell to punish people for perceived faults (machines don’t make mistakes, after all)? Or even if it tried to create a paradise, wouldn’t it just become a Hell for people? It’s a slightly different take on The Matrix, with the added question: given that every country wants to have a technological edge, how would humanity stop this from happening even if it wanted to?