The People's Experiment (Ebook)

It predicted the future. Then the government made it come true. In the Republic of Ordan, no major policy is made without first asking the Public Future Engine: a simulation of every citizen in the country, housed in an old wool mill, that tests decisions before they touch a single human being. It has saved billions. The press call it the crystal ball in the mill. Behavioural scientist Elise Warren is hired to make its simulated people more human. Then a young engineer shows her a chart. The Engine predicts riots with ninety-one per cent accuracy, which should be impossible. Some of its forecasts were made before the decisions that caused the unrest had even been announced. The answer lies in a part of the system she isn't supposed to see, and in a poor district two miles from the mill where the library has just closed, the youth club has lost its funding, twenty-two new cameras have gone up, and everyone keeps getting messages from the government telling them to stay calm. THE PEOPLE'S EXPERIMENT: a novella of prediction, power and the future we make. Complete and standalone, from ThextonLabs. WHAT YOU GET - The complete novella (11,000 words, 46 pages) - EPUB for Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo and Google Play Books - 6x9 PDF that reads beautifully on any phone, tablet or computer HOW TO READ IT - Kindle: send the EPUB to your Kindle with the free Send to Kindle app or email - iPhone and iPad: open the EPUB in Apple Books - Android: open the EPUB in Google Play Books, or just open the PDF - Computer: open the PDF PLEASE NOTE - This is a DIGITAL download. Nothing physical will be shipped. - Personal use only: please don't share or resell the files. - Contains riots and civil unrest. Suitable for adult readers. - Written and designed by ThextonLabs with the help of AI tools, then edited and proofread.