A Heartbeat from Tomorrow (Part 1)

Professor Gene Schilling is a smart man. Smart enough to know most people are not going to believe his stories about the future. Mention time travel, then combine it with a discussion about advanced computer systems with superior artificial intelligence, and your audience has dwindled down to a few diehard computer geeks who like science fiction.

But if you are smart, you adapt. You change your target audience to include more people. A lot more people. Meet Professor Gene Schilling, one of twelve contestants on a popular primetime TV reality show with multiple 24/7 live feeds to the Internet. When the show ends in a couple of months one person will take home the $1,000,000 grand prize. Now the whole world is watching Gene’s every move, including you.

So how will the eleven other players in this game react to someone who claims to have access to some privileged knowledge about the future? The professor wants to share what he knows, but can he be believed? Is he telling the truth? Some would say the professor was ahead of his time; others, that he was the biggest con man alive.

But don't take any sides until you have read the last chapter. There is a master plan beyond the singularity, and you are a part of that plan. Like watching the tetrad of four blood moons, or trying to identify the targets for the newest version of the Regin malware, there are more events occuring in chapter #11 than you can envision.