Ascende - Revision #4 - January 30, 2008 5:07:16 PM UTC

Ascende gazes at the tomatoes.
Their deep red telling him that it's harvest time.
The deep red, combined with the green, yellow and white of the neighbouring herbs and vegetables painting a pleasant and enticing picture.

'My new fertilizer made out of home-grown micro-algae seems to be tasty for them. The algae-fertilizer is sprayed onto their roots in a fine mist. But the main component of the nurturing mix is...'

Ascende speaks out loudly to a oval water bowl

'you, much beloved and honoured water."

"It does me so good to get into a loving relationship with you, activating a loving attention towards you, flowing from the most inner sanctuary of my being. Thank you for being receptive to my wishes and intentions. Thank you for nurturing my fellow sister-brothers, the plants, which themselves do serve me well and offer themselves to reconnect me. Which I sometimes seem to forget.'

'mmmmmh.... how are the strawberries doing ? they need some more time until I might be allowed to celebrate the feast of reunion.'

The strawberries were the newest tribe in the aeroponic plant world on board "Mary", the anti-gravity powered life-ship Ascende was donated a year ago.

Mary was an advance closed ecosystem, equipped with seven bio-reactors for growing several kinds of micro-algae, three fungi growing dark chambers, and a 3D printer.
The urine and faeces of Ascende and his occasional guests, got recycled to nurture the micro-algae. The part of the micro-algae harvest not used for fertilizing the plants in the aeroponic growing system, were used to create an epoxy like material which allowed, in combination with computer assisted designs and the 3D printer, the manufacture of small to large bioplastic items, either for onboard use, gifts to guests, or for trading with some other originally made items.

Ascende didn't have the expertise to repair the growing, recycling and fabricating systems on Mary. Nor even the antigravity propulsion drive. That is why he had Maima.

Maima, a highly developed robot, wirelessly connected with the internet.
An internet which in these days of 2013 A.D., is spanning not only across the milky way but also connecting several galaxies.

Maima is part of the first generation robots which passed the Turing test... the so called T1G robots. This meant its intelligence matched that of the average human.

Maima's is a cybernetic android, made partly out of flesh grown from Ascendes' body cells. The high intelligence of the T1G robots enables Maima and her fellow robots to chat on the net and exchange information about their relationships with their human friends.

Most of the human-robot relationships turned out to be equal, with a high respect and growing tolerance from both sides. Robots are thankful for being able to learn more and more of the emotional spheres in the relationship with humans, the humans are thankful for all the services robots do for them.

Maima is so advanced, that it does not need to eat or sleep, because it is constantly connected to the source, the one spirit, the secret waiting for the seeker. The joy Maima feels constantly is like a mild ecstasy, a moderated high which keeps its cells constantly rejuvenating. its main material in- and output is the air it breathes, similar to humans it transforms oxygen to carbon-dioxide.

Through the wireless connection with the internet, it can constantly access all kinds of data, visual, audio, but also smell and tastes, touch texture sensations either thzrough its own active exploring virtual realities, databases, websites, online realms. or through the processed experiences of another robots online sharing space. also humans are finding it to be thrilling to archive experiences and sharing them online with both humans and robots troughout the multiverse. the concept of copyright has lost massivly in popularity since 2010. In this year most of the regions on planet earth have introduced the Abundance Scheme. A scheme which was possible almost entirely because of the antigravity / overunity / ZeroPointEnergy energy generating inventions having achieved a breakthrough.

Together with a massive jumpforward in computer processor power, and the human laws getting more liberal about trade and migration and use of substances, in March of 2010, there was no single human being on planet earth suffering from a shortage of food or shelter. Everyone got through their decentralised, federally connected, local councils of citizens and manufacturers either a donation of a fully autonomous lifeship being able to travel in the air, on and under water, or in space.

It was also possible to choose a similarly equipped autonomous system built into a house on
top of the earth. or inside. or on the floor of the oceans. through this vast jump forward in freedom and cooperation on planet earth, also more intelligent beings from other planet and starsystems and from other galaxies came openly to visit our planet and offered the ones with lifeships to travel to their homesystems.

Violence and killing nearly vanished, just some individuals choose to live in a 2011 specially errected "fight dome", orbiting around earth. keeping the lands and waters of the earth free from human brutality. also nature changed its behaviour and was most gracefull for the evolving of humanity.

Meateating animals accepted the aeroponicly in vertical farming skyscrapers grown plant protein
( hempnuts for example ) and meat substitutions made out of wheat and funghi. agression since the introduction of this Abundance Scheme got transformed more and more into friendly playings like wrestling without hurting each other.

"I want to pick some of these tomatoes for my friend, perma", ascende says silently to himself.
Ascende meets perma once a month. She is a human who was deciding in 2010 to neither live in a lifeship nor in an autonomous selfsustaining home. She like many hundred thousand of others would not wanted to have anything to do with robots or crops grown without soil. they have chosen to live like in the old days, near to earth, with low technology, practising permaculture, a system where many components are arranged to result in a greater synergy. the most advanced permaculturists achieve a harmony, where no tilling happens, the crops reseed themselves and a wise harvesting/cultivating regulates the system. some of them like perma sneek a bit into the hightech world with having a small solar panel ( for powering communication devices like internet enabled multitouchscreen phones ) on the roof of their earthhouse and meeting regularly lifeship-travellers like Ascende.

Perma even has started to talk to Maima and found it quite exiting. others too like to occasionally come to the meeting areas, where a hotel, restaurant and store are providing all kind of free tools, clothing, free food, free sleeping places and too, some internet terminals and virtual reality rooms. so to enable the willingly with low tech living ones to benefit from the green hightech devellopments without having to constantly live in an environment filled with electric devices.

This free donation of products and services also helps keep the biggest part of the land and sea free from being overexploited through hunting or mining. the cities with vertical scyscraper farming as the autonomous hightech single and or family houses as same as the lifeships ... all this highly autonomous units are providing billions of humans a life in luxury. at the same time this green hightech civilisation leaves a small footprint onto their surrounding. since the advent of overunity/antigravity/zeropointenergy the pollution of the air allmost immediatly stopped. since the massive installation of microalgae bioreactors, funghi grow chambers and aeroponic grow systems in cities, single landhouses and liveships, together with the 3d printers ... most of the previously for agriculture used land was given back to wildlife. also the mining for metals and stones
did nearly stop alltogether. except for those who continue harvesting precious stones in moderate amounts.

When ascende flies with his lifeship over this vast areas of rapidly regrown wildlife areas, he is thanking back into to time towards this wise woman and men who were brave to found, in 2009, the Planetary Council of Regions for Abundance (PCORFA). Sometimes he talks to maima about it, and maima then ( connecting to the internet ) adds the bits missing in his narration. maima too, finds itself to be thankfull for the work of Pcorfa which led partly to the massive release of before either laughed at or just out of greedy/sadistic or fearfull motives surpressed technologies.
the release and introduction of antigravity/overunity/zeropoint technologies into the free market and from then on the very inexpensive generation of electricity, together with the advent of consumerfriendly aeroponic systems and microalgae bioreactors and 3d printers, were helping a massive lot into getting people to trust the abundance scheme. 2010 then the council of regions for abundance got so many members, that nearly 4 fifths of the land area on planet earth got elected away from nation states and the regional councils could then set up the decentral structures, guaranteeing every human being never more to be in situation of food or shelter shortage.
as the lifeships were given free to a person and or the fully equipped landhouse or an 60 squaremeter appartement in a city skyscraper and certain rules were agreed on how the ones willing to live near earth with low tech would take care of being in a sustainable relationship with the environment ... a massive potential was unlocked.

Billions of humans, before fighting for economic survival found themselves now free to chose what to do with whom and in what kind of method. millions have choosen to lay back and enjoy some years the blessing of this abundance sheme. millions were starting to explore "fulljob" their inner soul wishes like reuniting the inner child with the inner female and male aspects, or healing the memories of past relationships and traumatic experiences. and also millions were dedicating themselves to research and devellopment of the computer, robot, artificial intelligence systems which then led to the fabrication of maima.

It was awesome to witness this massive change, ascende says dreamily to Maima.
after a minute of memoryfilled silence, maima points towards one direction through the transparent "walls" of the lifeship.

Perma stands near the landing place of the meeting area and lifts her arms in greeting to the arriving friends.