Thirty years ago we lived in a world of telephones with dials and buttons, libraries with paper books, games at tables and in the fresh air, and computers somewhere behind the walls of institutes and design bureaus. But computers appeared on everyone’s desk, and then in their bags. It became possible to watch a movie on your phone, games moved to virtual reality, and all this was connected by a network in which you can find anything, and ideas spread a thousand times faster than in the biospace of the old world, and quickly find those who need them more and are more interested. everyone.

Manfred Max is the most powerful engine of progress on Earth. He generates ideas at the speed of a machine gun, he tests them for feasibility, and he knows how to ensure that the invention quickly finds someone who needs it and implements it. Sometimes they just spread around the world at lightning speed and create a revolution, sometimes you have to work hard so that everything happens exactly like this, and not something much worse, but the result is the same - through the efforts of enthusiasts, the future is coming closer. A whole army of electronic agents helps Manfred in this difficult matter. At first they are little more than automatic search programs, but as they become more complex and refined, they gradually acquire the characteristics of human thoughts living somewhere out there, in silico. The motto of Manfred and others like him is “freedom to technology!”, and the time is coming when electronic thinking powers become available to everyone. The rate of emergence of new inventions and ideas begins to grow uncontrollably, they bring more and more new additions of mind and hardware, and the feedback loop closes. The exponential of progress turns into a curve with a vertical asymptote. What awaits us behind it?