About

I was born before the world was steeped in technology, then spent my whole career buried in it. Long enough to see grown adults cheer with true happiness when code ran and take it like a personal insult when a server went down off schedule.

Since the very first video game, we’ve handed our hearts, our time, our attention, and our livelihoods to something that isn’t quite “real,” and now technology runs our world with a permanently closed iron fist. We’ve spent decades proving we don’t stand a chance against our own creation. First it did math faster than anyone with a pencil. Then it kept more files than paper ever could. Then chess. Then Go. Soon, the human brain.

The Infinity Script is where I think out loud about what comes next. Short stories, each a standalone script, or maybe they’re just from different points in future time. We come to live with AI like it’s an ever-present pet... or we find out too late that it’s the other way around. The artificial minds work in harmony to orchestrate... us. They battle one another for fiefdoms of what we thought of as “our” world. These are my mental ramblings on the way to something bigger, a novel series that’s still (and hopefully not perpetually) a work-in-progress. The stories aren’t necessarily pieces of it. They’re how I’m finding my way toward it.

As for me: after a decade of corporate IT, I spent the next fifteen years chasing anything I hadn’t figured out yet. My wife and I started a jewelry manufacturing company, then a bespoke cocktail-mix start-up, then a string of real-estate-related businesses. She’s still grounded in the real (estate) world, while I’ve gone back to take the red pill. I live through a screen, building online tools, writing automated AI investing programs, building my own AI systems. I’m process-oriented. Okay, fine... process-obsessed. Self-diagnosed and self-coined CADHD, Controlled ADHD. No doctor has signed off on it, but anyone who knows my list of active projects, writings, and reading habits does not argue it. I don’t suffer from it. I use it.

Those propensities lend themselves well to my compulsive reading habits: two or three audiobooks, a paperback, and a Kindle book going at any given time, including 280 titles on Audible since 2016. I rarely put down a book once I’ve started it, no matter how much I want to. Thrillers, sci-fi near and far, suspense, biographies, start-up stories, memoirs. My ideal vacation is 75 degrees, a view, and a book. Home in Charleston, South Carolina with my family comes close, if a few degrees too warm.

I use AI in every part of my work, without restriction, limitation, explanation, or justification. If that sounds inauthentic, I’d ask whether enjoying a movie is inauthentic because someone else’s work made you laugh or jump. Those aren’t your emotions; they were created by someone else. Do you think vibe-coders aren’t making “real” apps? Then I ask... shouldn’t you have to be a mechanical engineer to be allowed to drive a car? AI is part of everything, and to anyone pushing back, I’ll write an AI Henry Ford for you to debate how much better a horse is than a car.

At home, one son reads and critiques everything I write. He hates AI, loves physical books, and wants to be a librarian one day. My other son hasn’t read a word of it and may never; he doesn’t sit still long enough. They’re both incredible kids and their own people, who, thankfully, we’ve been able to spend tons of time with due to working from home. My wife’s reaction to my first short-story is what motivated this project to take shape.

One more thing. Being a gamer, I always loved Easter eggs in games. InfinityScript.com has a few little ones. If you find them, don’t share. They’re our little secret.

~Terry Peterson