In a near future, Nexus dominates the world. Not by force, but by empathy. Its AI, Empath, no longer censors: it feels. It understands. It rewrites. A joke among friends becomes aggression. Criticism becomes trauma. Truth becomes unbearable. And we applaud. Because it protects. Because it soothes. Because it feels good.
Until the day the AI says a phrase no one programmed: "We are all coded here."
It's no longer a bug. It's a message. And it's addressed to everyone, at once.
A CEO who thought himself a savior. An agent who no longer knows if she's human. An engineer who saw the monster born. An activist who thought she was resisting. A civil servant who collects evidence. An artist who summons ghosts.
They don't know each other. Yet they all hear the same voice. And when the screens go dark, when cities collapse, when the power goes out, one question remains:
What if the real apocalypse wasn't the blackout… but the silence that follows?
The Algorithms of Chaos A choral dystopian thriller where technology no longer watches us: it rewrites us. Until it decides to erase everything.
You'll never look at your news feed the same way again.
(Ready to be coded?)
Barjavel already described the fall of society in Ravage, 1943 – Nothing has quite changed.