Steemit Challenge s26wk1: The Office Project
“Some truths are not discovered—they are uncovered, layer by layer, until the last piece forces you to face what you were never meant to see.”
That was exactly how it began for Adeel Khan on a rainy night at PakTech Solutions…
The rain tapped steadily against the glass windows of PakTech Solutions as Adeel Khan adjusted his glasses and stared at the lines of code on his screen.
It was late at night, and the office was almost empty. Only Adeel, Sara Malik, and Bilal Ahmed remained, working on the final stages of Project Noor, a system officially described as an “energy management software” that could revolutionize the industry.
But in the last week the three had begun to feel a feeling they had never felt before. The documents were huge and much more complicated than any ordinary energy project necessitated. On the same night during the search of an error log, Bilal accidentally found himself in an encrypted folder within a main server that was extremely located and hidden.
The name itself was unassuming--Archive_Zero--but the level was set to Confidential Level 7, an access level they all were technically not formally authorized to open.
Interest got the best of safety. Hours after having eluded security measures, Adeel was finally able to unlock the folder. Within these there was a row of older papers, one as old as the late 1990s, all of which were signed The Horizon Experiment. When Sara read them her eyes opened. This isn t energy optimization, she mouthed. This is…. globe scale predictive modeling.”
The reports outlined a mathematical algorithm that had the potential of predicting future economic, political, and environmental occurrences with terrifying accuracy.
The predictions not only featured world crises but major crises too some of which had resulted to be exact as predicted and others which are still pending.
Even chapters on population movements, climate catastrophes, resource wars were simulated by the 1980s.
There were embarrassing glances. Bilal said in a low voice, If this is so this venture can dominate the world markets. No surprise they suppressed it.
Before confronting any person, the three concluded that they had to get some evidence. With their collective expertise they started to test the algorithm with up to date data.
It produced a forecast in hours that matched breaking news half-way around the world-a trade crisis they as yet had not heard about.
There was no denying that Project Noor was strengthened much more than it was known to the outsiders in the top management.
However, the further they probe, the more they discovered that there was a pitfall. The predictive models have worked, yet a single compromised data set could lead the entire system astray and this could lead to disastrous decisions in case they are applied in policy-making or to profit the corporation.
Someone had altered the values of some of these variables-probably years before-introducing biases which had favoured a particular energy corporation.
Learning the predicament they devised a strategy. They would correct the botched data, do a stimulation without a bias and present it in entirety to the board of the company with all the sufficient evidence of what they had discovered.
The risk had been immense--they might lose their jobs, or worse--but the truth was the thing.
They did the corrections after three nights full of intense work. The new promise projected the way to the stability of the global resources and the recovery of the environment in case it would be used responsibly. Astonished, the board sat when they at last made their findings.
The project was reincarnated as a global open-source project, making PakTech Solutions a worldwide recognised expert of ethical technology cells.
They smiled silently and Adeel, Sara, and Bilal exchanged a smile as they stood in a press hall full of cameras weeks later. They had made a solution that can change the world out of a hazardous secret.
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artist1111
Steemit Challenge Season 26 Week-1: The Office Project
Dear @artist1111, Here is the detailed assessment of your submission:
So, Adeel, Sara Malik, and Bilal Ahmed completed Project Noor, an “energy management software” which was started in late 90s that revolutionize the energy industry.
I am surprised a mathematical algorithm with ability to predict future economic, political, and environmental accuracy was under process during that period in Asia when the use of computer had just begun.
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Thank you for reviewing and sharing your thoughts.
Yes, it is indeed surprising — and that’s partly why I built that twist into the story. After the 1990s, as computer adoption remained somewhat nascent in Asia, the specialist research groups and sometimes sponsored by the state activities were not necessarily decades behind civil technology.
The idea was to show how a groundbreaking you know algorithm could have been quietly developed, hidden from the public, and only revealed much later through the efforts of determined individuals like Adeel, Sara, & Bilal.