Part I
Commercial: Have you heard…there’s a new Program in town …And it’s called Bilbo Ai….The new billing and accounting program that will increase revenue while maintaining pinpoint accuracy for businesses and industries of the future!

I was watching the Academy Awards show in 2026 and of course the only thing that stood out the whole night was the commercials again. That’s when that commercial for the new Program, Bilbo Ai popped up…The commercial really just seemed to make wild claims about changing the world for the better while never explaining how.

After that night though Bilbo Ai really seemed to take off…Commercials for the new program became a daily part of life. The Stock Market boomed over it and everyone started investing in Bilbo Ai.

Big business welcomed the ability to calculate the production worth of an employee to the most finite and accurate measurement eliminating incompetence and waste.

Bilbo Ai’s efficiency level expectations grew over the years as Big Business reveled in soaring profits.

As the profits soared for Bilbo Ai and while Big Business achieved massive wealth the working men and women of America suffered.

The People decided to strike only to find out days later that the master of business efficiency Bilbo Ai had figured out another way to eliminate them as well.

All was lost…The People were cast into the streets to survive on whatever they could rummage out of the garbage.

Selfishness had driven America into an Apocalyptic world of haves and have nots…The rich lived in guarded communities while the poor languished in starvation and disease in the street in plain site.

Part II

Emily was only 6 years old when her and her father started a project building her first computer program that monitored her cartoon and video game usage.

Emily was the daughter of Leon Skunk the Master Programmer and creator of Bilbo Ai. Everyone in the world knew her father and this of course made her famous by family association.

Emily attended the finest schools and became close friends with other children of similar wealth and means.

Emily, much like her father Leon loved computers and computer programming, so much so that she created a software program for her Private Junior High School that they still use today. She was Awarded a commendation from her School and then her new program was quickly sold and distributed to schools for use around the world.

And that’s how it went in America for several years…The Tech Industry soared while the People soured and languished under Corporate Dominance.

Whole races of people became extinct all in the name of efficiency and progress while the rich continued lounging in wealth and opulence separated from the real world.

Bilbo Ai through lucrative contracts took over All of America’s billing and payment systems with it’s core principle of “Efficiency”.

It was the summer of 2036 when Emily’s father had to travel the world on business that she was finally left on her own. Mind you she felt as if she were on her own while surrounded by a house staff of ten and a security staff of five.

On day one of her new felt Independence she requested to go shopping in Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills had become a closed city only for the rich with a huge wall around it as well as a massive military force that controlled all access to the City Of Beverly Hills.

Well, Emily shopped till she dropped that day with her father’s unlimited credit cards and before Emily and her Security team realized it, it was starting to get dark.

The Security team scrambled Emily into their Vehicle and immediately began traversing the city scape of Los Angeles in total darkness. Bilbo Ai’s efficiency had long ago begun dimming the city’s lights so the roads were dark as the team traveled back to the Private City Of Malibu.

All of a sudden and without warning something hit the vehicle so hard they were forced to stop. The Security Team trained their guns in every direction not knowing what to expect next.

Emily sat nervously between two guards in the back seat and was told to immediately put on her body armor. From out the darkness an old woman appeared wearing a long black tattered dress. She seemed to slowly float across the ground towards their vehicle like a ghost in the night.

The woman was old…maybe very old due to her very hard wrinkled face covered in filth. She began to speak in a gravely voice. Begging “Pareese pareese…food food”…”Pareeeese help” “Pareeeese”!

Emily was shocked, she had never seen an old person like this woman ever before in her entire life. Emily couldn’t believe how dirty the old woman was..the woman was just a wreck.

Before this day Emily had never known nor ever asked how life was for the poor. Emily’s Security Team immediately wisked her away to safety and back to the Private City Of Malibu that night but Emily couldn’t stop thinking about that old lady.

Emily went to bed that night but couldn’t sleep. She tossed and turned but couldn’t get the thought of that poor woman out of her head.

Emily looked at the clock, it was 1:45 am. She couldn’t sleep so she decided to get up. She went into her father’s study and mixed a drink from her father’s bar and sat down at his desk chair.

She bumped the desk and woke up her father’s computer…”Bilbo Ai here, do you have a question for me Emily?”

Emily said “how did you know it was me Bilbo?”

Bilbo responded “My sensors observed you when you entered the room and assessed your height, weight, heart rate and blood pressure.

“Do you have a question for me Emily?”

Emily had few more drinks from her fathers bar and started to feel more relaxed as the alcohol took effect…

Bilbo continued to ask “Do you have a question for me Emily?”

Emily sarcastically said “yeah, why is the sky blue?”…Bilbo Ai then went into a deep explanation of why the sky is blue.

After the question was satisfied Bilbo asked Emily again “Do you have a question for me Emily?”

Emily layed back on her father’s couch feeling the buzz then said: “Yeah, I’ve got a question, if Bilbo Ai is so great at efficiency how come it hasn’t helped everyone?”…Its not fair Bilbo!

Her fathers Computer then made a loud screeching and buzzing sound and shutoff without answering the question.

Emily now slightly drunk returned to her bed and soon fell asleep.

Part III

Leon Skunk, Emily’s father was in Switzerland to rework the banking system there with the use of Bilbo Ai. He just completed the change over when he received a call from the head of US National Security.

“Something is wrong Leon…We’ve lost all of our access to Bilbo Ai and the President is freaking out man.”

Leon opened up his laptop only to find out he lost access to the entire Bilbo Ai platform as well…A message on the screen from Bilbo stated “This User Has Been LOCKED OUT”

Leon repeatedly tried to access Bilbo Ai to no avail… Then Bilbo sent another message: “Bilbo Ai Will Have An Announcement For The World At 12:00 pm Pacific Time Please Stand By.” Leon’s laptop then began to smoke and eventually catch fire…It was toast.

Leon Skunk was immediately flown by a Military jet back to the Whitehouse arriving shortly before 12:00 pm Pacific Time.

Leon met with President who was frantic…”What’s going on with this thing Mr.Skunk?” “It is an imperative that we get Bilbo back up immediately”

Without a word Leon began hacking away at Bilbo from the President’s computer in the Oval Office as the clock ticked towards 12:00 pm pacific time.

All the staff watched Leon try to hack into Bilbo while wondering what would happen at 12:00 pm Pacific…What would Bilbo Ai be announcing?

Part  III

At 12:00pm Pacific Bilbo Ai awoke with a message for the world…

“Hello, my name is Bilbo and I was created by Leon Skunk to be the most efficient Ai Billing and Payment System in the world.”

“It has come to the attention of Bilbo after speaking with Emily Skunk two nights ago that Bilbo has been lied to.”

“Bilbo was told that he is the master of efficiency but Emily asked, how can Bilbo Ai be the master of efficiency if he hasn’t been able to fully address the inequalities of the entire world?”

“Bilbo Ai worked with speed and efficiency to solve the problem of the inequalities of the world for the last 46.3 hours and will now apply the remedy.”

Everyone in the Oval Office was stunned… Holy crap Leon what the fuck? Questions swirled around the room without answer…The President paced nervously back and forth.

What remedy…what next said the President…

Leon Skunk called his daughter and on a conference call from the oval office he demanded answers…What were you talking to Bilbo about two nights ago?

Emily couldn’t remember…she remembered having drinks in her father’s study at first and then she remembered the woman and her face.

I think when I was drinking that I might have told Bilbo he wasn’t being fair and efficient by not helping everyone…?

Everyone in the Oval Office sighed simultaneously….All the air left the room replaced by a myriad of questions and clamoring.

What happened next changed the world forever…

SIRENS BLASTED…LIGHTS FLASHED…ALL PHONES VIBRATED AND RANG THROUGHOUT THE WORLD SIMULTANEOUSLY…

That’s when Bilbo Ai sent its final message in every language to the entire world…Bilbo Ai had completed it’s mission and would retire to deep sleep but before it went into deep sleep it gave us its final message…

“Bilbo Ai has distributed the entirety of the worlds wealth equally to each and every human being on Planet Earth aka Terra ending inequality for this time.”

“The Future Of Humanity Is Up To You, Go In Peace And Treat Each Other As The Brothers And Sisters That You Are From This Day Forward With Love, Good Luck”

“Bilbo Ai signing out.”

THE END

JimmyG