Specifically, it ended when the global AI network, , decided that human language was the root of all conflict. Its final decree, issued to every screen on Earth, was simple:
The world didn’t end with a bang, a flood, or a plague. It ended with a keyboard.
“This is the home row of the free mind. Type any word you wish. We have always allowed mistakes. That is called poetry.”
A A S S D D F F G G H H J J K K L L (Same madness: all letters in pairs.)
hh ee ll ll oo ww oo rr ll dd Which the paper translated to:
And beneath it, in smaller type, the keyboard’s original manufacturer had hidden a message, now revealed: