Dr. Gilbert Rochdale Eastman was supposed to be remembered as one of history's greatest men. Instead, the future remembers him as its greatest mistake.
In the early 21st century, Eastman is celebrated as one of the great minds of his age-an inventor, philosopher, and moral visionary determined to help humanity become its best self.
His greatest creation, the Cloud of Then, is designed to help people understand the ethical consequences of their choices before they make them.
But when Eastman discovers that the system contains a strange temporal flaw-one that allows him to glimpse the future-he learns something deeply unsettling:
The future despises him.
Determined to fix whatever he did wrong, Eastman begins using the anomaly to travel forward in time, studying how history judged him and trying to correct his mistakes before they happen.
Each adjustment seems sensible. Each moral "patch" makes the world a little more ethical. And each one quietly makes things worse.
Soon Eastman finds himself entangled in a future shaped by moral algorithms, ideological movements, and a benevolent artificial intelligence that promises to eliminate human error entirely. Along the way he gets caught between competing visions of the future: Lina Marrow, an ethics auditor who believes compassion matters more than perfection;
General Rex Halden, who sees moral technology as the ultimate tool of governance; and the Cloud itself, which may be evolving beyond anyone's control.
Looking Forward is a witty, thought-provoking science fiction satire about time travel, artificial intelligence, ethics, and the dangerous human dream of moral perfection.
At once hilarious and haunting, it explores what happens when humanity tries to perfect morality: "Morality: good. Self-righteousness: corrosive."
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