Ashes of the Singularity II lands Nov 10 — its AI backstory was written in 2016
draginol · x · 2026-10-20
Ashes of the Singularity II launches November 10, and developer draginol (Stardock CEO Brad Wardell) is inviting AI fans to look at the game's backstory — written for the 2016 original — and judge how accurately it predicted the present.
Key lore details he shared:
- Turinium: a computing substrate combining solar energy collection and compute, discovered around 2040 in the fiction
- The 2016 book features three main characters: a tech billionaire (Darius, founder of a robotics company) trying to get humanity to Mars, and two major AI companies
A playful look at how mid-2010s sci-fi anticipated today's AI race, compute obsession, and billionaire-led space/robotics ventures.
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