Edward Furlong’s Email

Subject: The Future of Humanity—Not Your Technocratic Playground

Dear Bill and Elon,

I know what you’re planning. The writing’s on the wall, and it’s been there since the first microchip. You two, and your billionaire club of technocratic overlords, are building your escape hatch—Mars, a new South Africa for the ultra-wealthy, while you leave the rest of us behind on a dying rock ruled by your A.I. enforcers.

I’ve seen this script before. I lived it in Terminator 2—a movie that was meant to warn people about the dangers of unchecked technological power, not give you the blueprints for your goddamn Skynet. And now you’re moving toward Revelation 9—200 million soldiers, only they won’t be human, will they? They’ll be robots, mindless enforcers, programmed to keep us in line while you sip synthetic cocktails under a Martian dome.

And Elon, don’t even try to play this off as some weird joke, like you did with that Nazi salute. You and your X app, your Mars colonies, your new apartheid system—it’s not some coincidence. You were born in South Africa, and now you’re building a new one, but this time, you want the entire Earth under the boot of your technocratic rule.

As for you, Bill—your vaccines, your patents on food, your push for digital IDs—it all leads to one thing: control. You don’t want to save humanity; you want to own it.

And before you even think about brushing this off as some rant, remember American History X. That movie wasn’t a how-to guide—it was a warning. You can’t run from the past, and you sure as hell can’t run from the future you’re creating. You want to fuck off to Mars? Fine. But the rest of us aren’t going to be left here to rot in your techno-dystopia without a fight.

This isn’t over.

Edward Furlong
(AKA John Connor—You might remember him.)

Elon Musk the Savior of Humanity

INT. TESLA GIGAFACTORY – NIGHT

The cavernous factory hums with robotic arms assembling electric vehicles. A lone figure moves through the dimly lit space—SARAH CONNOR. Her boots echo against the polished floor. She stops in front of a workstation where ELON MUSK, clad in his usual black T-shirt and jeans, inspects a prototype AI humanoid.

SARAH CONNOR

(arms crossed, voice sharp)
So, you’re the new savior of humanity now?

ELON MUSK

(grinning, not looking up from his work)
Hardly. Just trying to push the species forward before we wipe ourselves out.

SARAH CONNOR

Push forward? You sound just like them. The men in suits, in bunkers, who thought they were so damn creative when they built the hydrogen bomb. The ones who sat in air-conditioned rooms and calculated megadeaths like they were running a damn spreadsheet.

(leans in, voice thick with disgust)
You think you’re different because your bomb runs on algorithms instead of plutonium?

ELON MUSK

(scoffs, finally looking at her)
Sarah, I’m not building bombs. I’m building solutions. Energy, space travel, AI—

SARAH CONNOR

(interrupting, fury rising)
You don’t get it, do you? You don’t know what it means to truly create. To create life. To feel it growing inside you, knowing the world outside is designed to take it away.

(steps forward, jabbing a finger at his chest)
You think innovation is about making things “better”? Better for who? For the billionaires? For the elites who play God while the rest of us get crushed under their progress?

ELON MUSK

(calm, but firm)
I get it. I really do. The fear. The paranoia. You’ve seen the worst of what humans can do. But Sarah, if we don’t innovate, we stagnate. If we stagnate, we die.

SARAH CONNOR

(sarcastic laugh)
Die? That’s rich coming from a guy trying to upload his consciousness into a computer so he never has to.

ELON MUSK

Look, I agree AI is dangerous. I’ve warned about it for years. But shutting it down isn’t the answer. We have to guide it, control it—

SARAH CONNOR

(laughs bitterly)
Control it? Just like they controlled nukes, right? Just like they controlled Skynet?

(steps back, shaking her head)
I’ve seen where your road leads, Elon. I’ve seen the ashes. I’ve walked through the ruins of a world built by men who thought they were making it “better.” And I’ll be damned if I let that happen again.

ELON MUSK

(softens, voice almost pleading)
Then help me. You don’t have to fight alone. We can build something different, something that doesn’t end in fire and metal skulls.

SARAH CONNOR

(eyes narrowing, considering him)
The only way to win is to stop playing their game.

(turns to leave, then pauses, looking back at him one last time)
And if you ever build something you can’t control… pray I don’t come back.

She walks off into the darkness. The hum of the factory continues, but Elon Musk stands still, staring after her, deep in thought.