It had been a week since Lucid was released into the world, and although the public had slowly stopped talking about it, the world had not returned to normal. Far from it actually.
While civilians continued with their daily routines, pretending everything was fine, the world's industries, markets, governments, and intelligence groups were quietly imploding.
The silence from the masses only made the shockwaves more concentrated among those who understood what Lucid truly meant. And nowhere was this collapse more obvious than in the tech sector.
NASDAQ had dropped more than 20% in a single week, which was the sharpest, most violent decline since many of the listed companies first went public.
The tech world wasn't shaken. It was shattered. Because for the past decade, Silicon Valley had been selling the same dream:
AGI by 2050–2100.
quantum supremacy.
full neural integration.
perfect automation.
next-gen robotics.
fusion-level clean energy.
smart devices that could "think".
