Blooming Barter — Timothy Carter

If Matej Chomsky knew what hitting the “publish” button on the app program code he had just completed would do to the world in the coming years, he would not have hit it. Unfortunately, his action was the beginning of the end for many people. In retrospect, years later, his Blooming Barter app would begin to evolve into a potent, multi-faced, and omniscient monster. Matej would recall how he had coded the blockchain command technique that had given him definite confidence that the Blooming Barter app was hack-proof. As it was downloaded and used, it would grow as an app. What he had not imagined was that it would become completely self-aware in a way only a human could. More sinister, the Artificial Intelligence of the Blooming Barter app had become immensely dangerous.