> It is beginning to get to the point where I am considering whether I need to actually start writing this book before this "sci-fi" concept becomes a mundane reality.

Yes, write your book.

I've been trying to fix the dramatic conflict in mine for the last few years (spare time) without much progress, and mine has a specific calendar year backed into it.

Go meta and make ChatGPT write it for you.

There's a lot of work involved in book and chapter plans, as well as bios so you're not getting off lightly.

But chatGPT would be able to make a first draft for you for sure.

Er, doesn't "ChatGPT4" (quotes) get to write all the novels now?

> It is beginning to get to the point where I am considering whether I need to actually start writing this book before this "sci-fi" concept becomes a mundane reality.

No need to rush. If that moment arrives, you could just change the Amazon category from fiction to nonfiction.

I’m looking forward to the “alternative history” SF novels of the future where AGI never materialized.

Dune is a great example of that! After their AGI goes sideways (in the Butlerian Jihad) human civilization shifts entirely to using human supercomputers (Mentats and the Bene Gesserit) juiced up on mental enhancement drugs (Spice).

That means it’s still a possible future and not an alternative history. ;)

I wonder what kind of __punk this will be called..