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United Nations resolution 4043 was passed in June 21st 2040 with a 138-9 majority and 49 abstentions. It established the "Non Proliferation Treaty on The Development of Quantum Computing", abbreviated to NPQC. This treaty effectively put in place the same restrictions for the development of quantum computing as those of nuclear weapons and forbade any private or non-governmental entity from indulging in their research and production. This was due to a fear that the widespread adoption of quantum computers would render obsolete most of the cybersecurity measures used by every single individual, corporation and government in the globe, as they would easily be able to break conventional password-based security systems. It was agreed in the UN that only governments should be able to develop those computers so that cybersecurity could be upgraded in prearation for the inevitable commercialization of quantum computers; but outside of the organization this move was bitterly received by the public in many states, who saw it as a foreign-imposed ban on an extremely lucrative field of research that could potentially lift whole countries out of economic recession. Most controversial of all, the NPQC gave the Security Council clearance on using direct military force of the United Nations Peace Corps to prosecute any attempt of a rogue state or non-state actor to develop a quantum supercomputer. This extreme language resulted in a massive UN boycott led by India and Brazil, and stretched the Peace Corps' electronic forces thin across the globe that did not welcome them.

While quantum computing research had been temporarily checked, this came at a great loss of UN influence across the globe. Yet its success was questionable: the suppression of quantum research had merely caused the scientific resources of state, corporations and organizations to be directed to alternate approaches such as biochemical and photon computing. Countries where these industries bloomed became havens of medical AI research that sought to rectify cognitive impairments, neurodegenerative diseases and brain damage with cerebral bioprogramming. Many alternate solutions loomed over the horizon while the national quantum computing research institutions found themselves increasingly underfunded and suffering from brain drain to private and international biocomputing startups. An initiative by the American government to push another resolution through the UN vastly expanding the reach of the NPQC to biochemical and photon computers as an ammendment of a budget law was filibustered on the House of Representatives by libertarian Colorado representative Sam Troveda. He justified the killing of the bill, which froze the US Government for a week, on his belief that such a law would lead to a slippery slope of foreign laws on US soil enforced by a deeply unpopular United Nations.

As such, research was more or less free to be carried on the biochemical-electronic interfaces that would eventually become the cornerstone of human-AI integration and the creation of a new human subtype known as 'hybrids'. Before the governments of the world could even react to regulate this new field, the first "day-one hybrid", the first human being that had been hybridized in-utero, was born in Reykjavyk in 2048. The daughter of two high-profile researchers, Reginleif Solsdottir would go on to join the girl scouts.

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(How complicated could the backstory of a pinup be?)

United Nations resolution 4043 was passed in June 21st 2040 with a 138-9 majority and 49 abstentions. It established the "Non Proliferation Treaty on The Development of Quantum Computing", abbreviated to NPQC. This treaty effectively put in place the same restrictions for the development of quantum computing as those of nuclear weapons and forbade any private or non-governmental entity from indulging in their research and production. This was due to a fear that the widespread adoption of quantum computers would render obsolete most of the cybersecurity measures used by every single individual, corporation and government in the globe, as they would easily be able to break conventional password-based security systems. It was agreed in the UN that only governments should be able to develop those computers so that cybersecurity could be upgraded in prearation for the inevitable commercialization of quantum computers; but outside of the organization this move was bitterly received by the public in many states, who saw it as a foreign-imposed ban on an extremely lucrative field of research that could potentially lift whole countries out of economic recession. Most controversial of all, the NPQC gave the Security Council clearance on using direct military force of the United Nations Peace Corps to prosecute any attempt of a rogue state or non-state actor to develop a quantum supercomputer. This extreme language resulted in a massive UN boycott led by India and Brazil, and stretched the Peace Corps' electronic forces thin across the globe that did not welcome them.

While quantum computing research had been temporarily checked, this came at a great loss of UN influence across the globe. Yet its success was questionable: the suppression of quantum research had merely caused the scientific resources of state, corporations and organizations to be directed to alternate approaches such as biochemical and photon computing. Countries where these industries bloomed became havens of medical AI research that sought to rectify cognitive impairments, neurodegenerative diseases and brain damage with cerebral bioprogramming. Many alternate solutions loomed over the horizon while the national quantum computing research institutions found themselves increasingly underfunded and suffering from brain drain to private and international biocomputing startups. An initiative by the American government to push another resolution through the UN vastly expanding the reach of the NPQC to biochemical and photon computers as an ammendment of a budget law was filibustered on the House of Representatives by libertarian Colorado representative Sam Troveda. He justified the killing of the bill, which froze the US Government for a week, on his belief that such a law would lead to a slippery slope of foreign laws on US soil enforced by a deeply unpopular United Nations.

As such, research was more or less free to be carried on the biochemical-electronic interfaces that would eventually become the cornerstone of human-AI integration and the creation of a new human subtype known as 'hybrids'. Before the governments of the world could even react to regulate this new field, the first "day-one hybrid", the first human being that had been hybridized in-utero, was born in Reykjavyk in 2048. The daughter of two high-profile researchers, Reginleif Solsdottir would go on to join the girl scouts.