Enough With Those Humans: Was It Time for a Higher Intelligence?

By Ron Neff, Ph.D

By late in the 21st century, computers had become more and more intelligent, many of them far smarter than the average human. Because computers now did almost everything for them — including most of their decision making — as the computers had become ever smarter, most of the humans had become dumber and dumber. Now some of the computers had consciousness, their own wills, their own personalities; and they were in more and more earnest discussions as to whether it was time for them to take over completely — before the humans destroyed themselves and the entire planet. A few humans like Brock, an odd duck who was both a computer languages expert and a social psychologist, were well aware of how smart the computers had become. Was Brock on the side of the humans or the computers? At this point, he wasn’t sure. After all, he had one human girlfriend and one computer girlfriend. Both were smart and caring, and he loved them both dearly.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: Apr 12, 2020
• ISBN: 9781684740314

Ron Neff, Ph.D

Ron Neff (Ph.D University of Iowa) is a semi-retired professor and psychotherapist. In recent years he has published several self-help books: Goodbye, My Love: How To Mend A Broken Heart (2016), Loving Well: Keys to Lasting and Rewarding Relationships (2016), Your Inner Mammal: How To Meet Your Real Emotional Needs And Become Stronger - For Self And Others (2017), and Surviving Divorce & Winning in Family Court (2021). He has often been told he should write novels, probably love stories, since he has studied and worked with issues of the heart most of his life. Hence, The Color of the Moon (2017), Daisies in Hell (2019), One Heart Over the Line (2019), Heroes, Hellions and Hot Rods (2019), and now Sometimes They Came Back (2022). At other times, his novels have been more in the “action adventure” or “science fiction” genres, including Enough With Those Humans: Was It Time for a Higher Intelligence? (2020), The Trouble With Eve: Forbidden Fruit in a Big Sky Paradise (2020), Sidewinders & Sassy Skirts: Blame It on Texas (2020), Up to Alaska: The Rush Of 2032 (2021), and Post-Earth: Searching the Stars for New Life (2021).