User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Lore Sheet: The United Republic of Humankind/@comment-4867780-20150626073051/@comment-26322734-20150626150423

At the point of the 41st Century, Computer Science would essentially seem like magic to anyone from the 21st Century. It can be used to construct entire virtual realities with hyper-realism, it can store massive amounts of power that modern supercomputers could only dream of storing. Computers now operate in the fastest, most efficient way they can in the known laws of physics of the time, and is an essentially obsolete field of study. Overall, it just means computers are perfect now. It's the perfect computer science of the 41st Century that allowed humanity to create MAGNUMOPUS.

Femtotechnology or femtoengineering is technology on the scale of quadrillionths of a meter (10^-15). It creates super-small nanotechnology capable of working directly with the finest known structures of matter (quarks, strings). It doesn't necessarily create things from nothing. When used with 3D printers, it converts any atoms around it into whatever the user wants to print (turning oxygen atoms into iron atoms, etc). It also allows the creation of more exotic materials like transparent metals, frictionless surfaces, and ultradense but lightweight structures.

Also, you see, due to the fact that humans can basically be whatever they want now, they don't see "perfection" as a difficult or impossible thing to get. If you think being an angel is perfect, you can be an angel no problem. If you think perfection lies in nature, then you can make your body physically part of the environment. There's really no limit to what the human of the 4000s can be, and so they seek to be what THEY see as perfect. It's the same as a "be the best you can be" philosophy, except now that there's no limit on "what you can be", it strives toward the absolute best you can be; mentally and physically, that is. So really what I'm saying is that their definition of "perfect" is pretty different from ours. It's actually an attainable thing to them.

Yeah. Though A.I. had been kept tight under check before MAGNUMOPUS so that humans didn't end up being destroyed waaaaay earlier than this, so was more of a mutual partnership. Except now that MAGNUMOPUS, "humankind's final invention" is slowly merging with all technology in the human territory, humanity is slowly going to be under MAGNUMOPUS' watchful eye. And what a babysitter it'll be...