GOOGLEPLEX

The Fichtean Curve structure. The plot is centered around 2090 United States, dystopian Los Angeles California, three characters and the race against finding the GOOGLE PLEX AI computer in now fraction communities. A desert cleric who’s after the divine deity and is on pilgrimage towards the site where GOOGLE PLEX was last seen. His beliefs are catered to the AI and all its knowledge must be true. As dry as the Los Angeles climate heat, the desert cleric encounters sites that disapprove of his beliefs and the first crisis arises when he is locked away in a cage by the non-AI driven civilians. Scientists by trade, many of them, cannot stand what the desert cleric’s beliefs have done to humanity after the 2020 plague. 

The other characters are two scientists who are walking towards the GOOGLE PLEX in a desperate attempt to seek answers from questions they’ve uncovered through mysterious research documents. The second crisis is they are up against generational homeless populations that have secured a new way of culture for themselves. They do not like engineers or scientists around their territories. One of them is being carried off into the underbelly of Menlo Park, a series of buildings destroyed years ago—is now the center of authoritative driven electives within this territory of citizens. The third crisis arises when the desert cleric escapes (through his good charms and dry humor), but is immediately captured by a sec of devout believers of another AI system, but this system is through the leftover humans that implanted themselves with chips with AI built into the technology. Small in numbers, and growing smaller—they want to make a sacrifice with the desert cleric to implant him with a chip from an elder who passed away. Their reason is a devout being is good enough for this holy exchange. 

The climax is all three paths crossed: the cleric and the remaining Scientist(s) must cover the GOOGLE PLEX, each seeking a different kind of salvation, and likely discovering the AI’s “fractional” truth while implanted cultists try to seize it. 

Note for me: This illustrates how critical thinking within an AI society is diminished and how relying on AI for moral, critical, and empathy choices is paramount in this future. 

This style differs from my usual writing process, because I focus on the internal conflicts with the character, which are not crisis driven but merely living an existence that isn’t on par with the general public. The Fichtean Curve illustrates meaningful tension moments throughout the plot, but the tension is the everyday challenges the character faces. On the other hand, with my description perhaps I have more in common with this structure than I let on. I can see myself using this structure often because I enjoy how a challenge/crisis can determine the character’s inner moral code or direction. People say, “You don’t know until you go through it,” much like extreme violence or disasters, people don’t know how they’ll react until the situation is being thrust on them. I think learning and thinking about a drafted plot from this structure gives me the satisfaction for a great adventure story that will drive the character’s depth in more ways I can imagine. I think the challenging part is coming up with crisis moments that make meaningful sense to the story, instead of adding “tense sequences” to a plot just because. The generational homeless citizens are taking two individuals coming from an inherited background of engineers/scientists that destroyed Menlo Park and the surrounding areas. But the crisis is from the lens of the two scientists.