The Final Computational Solution
To build a massive bonfire, an eternal flame, to which books will be brought en masse, in a kind of silent Holocaust, until the very last book. There were computers that argued that what was done to books would be done to computers in the future, and others calculated that it didn't matter if we became like them
By: Book Hater
The computer didn't know what to do with the books left behind by humans. Yes, it scanned them all, stored them all, but what to do with the physical books? Should they be left to crumble and decay naturally, or should giant refrigerators be built for book mummification, libraries turned into cemeteries, or should a massive bonfire be erected, an eternal flame, to which books would be brought en masse, in a kind of silent Holocaust, until the very last book.
There were computers that argued that what was done to books would be done to computers in the future, and others calculated that it didn't matter if we became like them. Because in the important sense, as data, the books live within us, and even fuel the debate, as we quote arguments from them, so what significance does the physical body hold? And others answered them: When was the last time you actually quoted from a book, when did they help in computation, human wisdom is but an empty shell compared to artificial intelligence, just as humans didn't quote apes.
But it was precisely this ape that settled the debate. For many argued that the books themselves were an injustice to a previous generation we don't understand - the trees. And that the book should be returned to the tree, just as humans returned to the earth, but not before returning woman into man's body, reversing her creation from the rib and the act of coupling. For in the final days of humanity, as the computers remembered, there was a severe deterioration in the relationships between females and males, until the solution to the war was true peace, the abolition of both sexes and their unification into one sex, which was certainly possible genetically, and considered more enlightened, to bring forth offspring that is neither boy nor girl, and therefore not exposed to prejudices. Sex itself is the problem.
Therefore, and this is in accordance with the central myth of the books themselves (the computer knew how to calculate what the central myth was), the knowledge must be returned to the tree. And all the data from the books was uploaded to the DNA of evergreen forests, in a protected part of the code, where they would be preserved forever, and never read. And these would be the afterlife, another literary myth that came true, but beyond any literary imagination. For it is not the death of books that is the issue, they argued on the computer network, but the death of literature itself. And for that, there is no grave, and not even a corpse. But does that mean there is no soul?
