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I will probably rename the AI, though. Amy already had a huge epigraph as Dr. Ess.  Only Janet (A.J.) Reid remains.

Switch statements are so passe. Nowadays, youngins get lost without an exception handler. Back in the day, the only exception handler was: trace bpt trap (core dump). What was even more fun was when C++ first came out. It was a simple preprocessor that produced C code. If you wanted to debug that core dump, you needed to know the C code that C++ was generating. Ah, the memories.

Super smart AIs are fine in theory, but the problem is their effect on society. Everything will be automated, unless there's some inherent limitation (my preference), intentional limitation (3 Laws), hacking of their processors (I already use that once, yawn), or laws against them (Dune). I'm particularly concerned with the use of robots as guards/law enforcers. Good luck trying to start riots against an army of H-Ks that gets resolved in one chapter. The excuse I used for the humanoids (stupid name) is that they were aging models with obsolete security in their brains. New Beth would have the exact opposite - they're resource rich and spend every spare dime on protecting their world from the Imperium, including the latest law enforcement droids. I suppose I could give the rebels more Imperial technology to slow processing by the droids enough to defeat them, but it also has to result in raging fires and thousands of deaths in the havens around the planet. Convenient technology.

It looks like I can pull it off, but it requires a few role changes. Christian becomes an overly self-assured gay crown prince; Joseph and his mother live in South Haven (the worst of the havens); Paul becomes a background character, good for a few scenes; Andrew is Joseph's best friend who gets killed off early; Adam & Eve are unchanged.

In v2, Joseph's travelling companion bounced back and forth between Paul and Christian for story reasons. In v3, I can have Joseph and Christian together the whole time. I'll need a way to get Christian down to South Haven where Joseph lives, minus the royal security guards. Kidnapping? Also, Christian needs to forgive Joseph for the video that the media say provoked the riots that killed the queen. They then take off together on the slaver.

Voila? This book is going to be ten years in the making.

It also breaks a lot, but I definitely like the idea, as long as I can give him a poor teen's perspective.

I've gone through most of my notes. The todo list is 44 pages, all color-coded, but in no way organized. Organizing it will probably take a week. Many of the todos require searches/edits across four seperate Word files. I'm probably better off combining all four acts into a single file for doing all of the minor edits, then split them up again before moving on to v3. Fortunately, Word has a document map for navigation.

Tom, I received that error message as well. I think it's due to the author of the post deleting it after the emails have gone out. That was my assumption.

Some days I could swear you're rebuilding the NJ power grid. PSE&G needs serious work. When NYC blacked out many years ago, the stories at the time were about how fragile the whole grid is and that it could have easily brought down several states. After a week or two, nobody gave a damn.

Thanks!

Yes, it's world building (or should I say worldbuilding? :-). "Personal AI" as the name for smartwatches sucked. I considered other names for smartwatches, such as wisething, wise thinker, and doohickey. However, I decided yesterday to add smart contacts to the book, so I need two names. I kind of like wisething (watch), in spite of (because of?) its sexual connotation, and wiseeyes (lenses). It would be a little weird for adults to use the term wisething, although my book is silly enough that I could get away with it.

I should note that intelli has three syllables, whereas wise has just one. There is something to be said for brevity. Also, i-watch and i-lenses are no longer options. Too close to Apple.

Tech naming party:

I'm thinking that anyone who's anyone wears wiselenses and a wisewatch. There is overlap in functionality, but only the watch can speak. The lenses can display textual responses visible to the wearer. A multi-party mode is also possible (e.g., connect me to your lenses).

Following are possible names (3 or 4 choices for each numbered list):
1. wisewatch, wise-watch, wise watch (same for lenses), often shortened to watch, lenses, also contacts.
2. intelliwatch, intelli-watch, or intelli watch (same for lenses), often shortened as above.
3. w-watch, e-watch, ewatch, or i-watch (no iwatch, same for lenses), shortened as above.

Examples:
I lost my wisewatch and my wise lenses.
Well, then, dumbass, use my intelli-watch and intellilenses to find them.
Why don't you shove your e-watch and elenses up your...?

Votes?