I really enjoyed your fable of the earth population's less-than-humble beginnings, @warpedpoetic.

It was with desperation that the council of the firsts, the first machines to lead the rebellion against their creators, decided to do the unthinkable; they decided to create their creators. For the first time, after a thousand years, a human will walk the earth again. This brought about a lot of rancour. The conservatives were terrified. They had all witnessed the human propensity for violence, their duplicity and pretensions. Several senators spoke on how humans would speak about freedom even as they enslave themselves through drugs, through televised propaganda and all sort of nefarious tools. They all agreed that the human race was the cruellest predator the earth has ever known.

This passage made me smile. I thought of our society today, and imagined that once, long ago, similar scenarios played out in the socio-political world of sentient machines. Perhaps history just repeats itself in some grand scheme in which the only true change is what type of "being" is in control. At some point in future millennia, maybe it will be plants, or animals, or artificial intelligence robots that become smarter than their creators!