Iron Plague

The beginning of the twentieth century. 1903. Technological progress. Bicycles, cars and cinema. European monarchies are weaving their intrigues. America is building its first skyscrapers. Some are already suggesting that difficult decades lie ahead of humanity - countries and empires will inevitably clash in a fight for colonies, resources and domination. And now, in some fifteen years, all these people, from the minister to the seller in the store, will have to learn what computers, artificial intelligence, video surveillance cameras, air defense missiles and normal bombing are. How did it happen that the Third Reich and other empires that had not even appeared were unceremoniously pushed to the side of history-non-history by the scruff of the neck, like ragamuffins? And how else to teach yesterday's peasant to operate a computer for aiming a new howitzer? Where did this nonsense come from, what happened anyway? Did an invasion from the future enslave everyone or something? No, not that. Read the story "Iron Plague".