Obstacles

This weekly's conversation with Mrs. Stoklosa was very helpful because it made me realize how some of my ideas were good in concept but were going to be really hard to produce. For example, having to show how a modern looking setting changes to a broken/abandoned one is not something I will be able to do easily. This is why that same day I kept the good ideas I had and got rid of the rest and started a new story, maintaining the same theme and concept of technological singularity (obviously).

I tried to think about something the whole day but I couldn't come up with anything concrete. I stayed up late that night doing another project for school when I got distracted looking at a broken USB stick that was laying around. That's when it finally crossed my mind that the technology didn't have to be futuristic as modern technology is enough for AI to exist. Here's the new plot:

An average family is mourning the death of the father, that died unexpectedly not long ago. The only son, a teenage boy (Tommy) feeling nostalgic and lost without his dad, starts looking through his father's things in the hopes to find something that may bring some closure to the incident. The dad was a successful software engineer, which is why his office has many computers and technological instruments. Looking through his boxes he finds this odd looking box, and inside it contains a flash drive with the letters ADAM written on it. He takes it and connects it into his computer to see what was inside this USB. Before doing anything, a screen pops up and it has a message greeting him. Tommy is curious on what this whole thing is and starts asking questions. The program seems to have it's own personality, but Tommy is skeptical if he should trust it. Not thinking straight and being very vulnerable Tommy begins to think that maybe his dad is still alive and in the form of this program. However, some hints give the impression that ADAM has a different purpose.