I am writing on Friday, October 13, and I do not intend to make a dangerous prophecy. I’m going to talk about a being who is neither female nor male who won the 2036 election for president of Ecuador. She has an image, a preferred avatar, Carla, a beautiful 40-year-old woman, mestizo, elegant like an international bureaucrat. Nítida, appeared on Carondelet’s balcony on Monday to lead the flag raising. He parades in an artillery car and always comes to shows in reserved boxes. You can’t touch it; it is forbidden to do so; but, if someone did it, they would wave their hands in the air, because it is a hologram projection. But depending on the circumstances, it could be the strict populist leader Carlos or the wise and super efficient engineer Carolo. He could have countless personalities, but they are limited to half a dozen so as not to confuse people.

The CNE declares Daniel Noboa the new president of Ecuador

It is considered disrespectful to say that the one who rules us is just a cybernetic aggregate, but it is not something to hide. It is not one computer, but several of them, distributed at numerous points of the national territory. In reality, using outdated terminology, Carla Zambrano is a program, a set of algorithms that operate through a computer network. To set a patriotic tone, it is said to be like the equator line, which is not imaginary but invisible, but real. Carla’s information apparatus is always looking for proof that our head of state and government exists and can even be seen. A significant percentage of the population really believes that a person is flesh and blood.

It all started when CZ applied for a competition for a controller; asked to participate online because she was sick with COVID-29. Her lawyers won an urgent appeal from the Constitutional Court, which authorized her to participate in a competition in which she crushed her opponents: she completed a questionnaire of 500 questions in thirty seconds, with 100 percent correct answers. With the same excuse of illness, he authorized him to attend a personal interview via video, in which he made fools of the judges who seemed imprecise, dusty and miserable. The result was overturned, because it was considered illegal, but a well-organized campaign showed the people the absurdity of wanting to have officials who know infinitely less than Carla, who has no sentimental preferences and is not prone to corruption. Tens of thousands of hyperactive millennials received signatures for a person conceived with artificial intelligence to be a candidate and, if elected, president of the Republic. With the generous vote of young people eager for change, the reform was achieved and they went to the polls. An effective hologram avatar was generated and, in the decisive debate between the candidates, the Ecuadorian format of the school exam favored him: he knew all the answers down to the smallest detail, and he failed the others. Those who defend their participation say that if there were candidates who looked like robots before, why shouldn’t there be robots who looked like candidates. Received. Hordes of youth in the streets celebrate Ecuador’s entry into the posthuman era. (OR)