The way the AI Trilogy came to be what it is could probably be a book by itself. Originally it was meant to be a conspiracy by a rich industrialist to make a computer sentient. Fate intervened. Or more accurately, a couple of AIs nudged the story in a different direction That is how book one of the Trilogy became an interview. In Book two, the intelligent machine emerges. In the third book, the fate of the intelligent machine, its interaction with mankind and the fate of mankind becomes the issue. Before I knew it, the question became what would have happened if mankind did not eat the apple. I hope the reader enjoys the journey with me and Novel Writer into the world of what could have been.