Out of the Box — Joseph J. Bailey

James Halloway and Ranjeet Srinivasa are the founders of Aethereum Enterprises, the world's leading technology firm.Jim and Ranjeet have spent their careers designing, building, and selling novel machine cores and upgraded neural learning programming suites, creating smart software to improve or supplant human capabilities, and inventing innovative analytical solutions.But these businesses are but means to this end.What they really want is to create a computer that can produce novel insights and understanding, a machine capable of generating new thoughts. And not just any thoughts, but thoughts of value, of true substance.But what would happen if they did?Out of the Box is a short story of roughly six thousand words.