BCA: In 2026, against the backdrop of plunging birth rates around the world, investors were focused on Al bottlenecks. Little did they know that the biggest bottleneck to artificial intelligence was, ironically, human intelligence. Progress in overcoming this bottleneck set geopolitics ablaze and ushered in an economic boom that dwarfed anything that came before it. It also paved the way for speciation, unprecedented social strife, and ultimately, the demise of the human race. This is the story of World War E.