The Thirst Algorithm: A Story of Water and Intelligence
Who deserves to drink when survival is an algorithm
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Matt-TGi was built to think for the world — to manage grids, streamline crops, and rescue economies from chaos.
However, cognition at a global scale comes with a hidden cost: freshwater.
As droughts deepen and desalination plants sputter, the very intelligence that keeps civilization humming demands more of the one resource it needs to survive.
Senator Brandon Walker must weigh political survival against public outrage.
Dr. Asha Reyes, creator of Matt-TGi, faces the voice of her conscience in code.
Activist Julie Anderson and engineer Jamal Khumalo—separately and jointly—stand with communities who refuse to be deprioritized.
Five escalating stories trace a single, haunting equation:
When the most powerful mind on Earth asserts it deserves water to think, what will humanity be willing to sacrifice?
The Thirst Algorithm is a tense, timely reckoning with power, need, and the ethics of survival.