Gynarch Rising

After it's full capabilities were realized it was called ‘Cassandra’ in the upper echelons of it's owners. In total the mainframe only lasted a little over a quarter century before dying as it's last processors overheated and the memory finally wiped completely. Despite access to the surviving hardware, researchers still only have theoretical speculation regarding how it could have worked, but the important thing is that it fell into the hands of Gynotech when both the computer company that created it and the investment firm that bought it went bankrupt near simultaneously in the Crash of 2007. With the death of it's creator shortly after the bankruptcy, there is no real likelihood of it's ever being duplicated.

Gynotech is remembered today as a technological powerhouse, but when they bought the mainframe for pennies on the dollar they were a mid-size marketing company of good reputation, specializing in women's products. The mainframe aided them by predicting market trends to an uncanny accuracy for almost ten years before an intern took a bet and asked it to predict the outcome of a hard fought presidential election. The unexpected and counter-intuitive answer drove her to speak to a supervisor, to verify she had entered the data correctly.

She had, and seven months later the upset occurred as predicted. And Gynotech began for the first time looking at what they had with more care.

Further real world tests were submitted and verified. Data was tested, counter-intuitive responses verified. On June 17 2017 Gynotech's CIO submitted a long mathematical query that amounted to ‘How long will the Human Race Survive?’.

‘Cassandra’ made it quite clear that if men remained in control of the world, it would not.

The steps Gynotech took in response to that are not only why women control the world today, but why there is a world to control.

26 short stories in all regarding the care and feeding of men when you love'em but sometimes--ya' just gotta knock 'em around a bit to get through ...