A massive solar flare event has hit the Earth, wiping out all electronics in its path.
Every country had fully digitized their records, centuries of knowledge are erased in a moment.
The cities, where autonomous vehicles, humanoid robots and bright advertisements had set the pace are now quiet and populated by a few ancient Buicks and BMWs.
Books, have become obsolete and eroded by time. Only few copies escape the knowledge wipeout.
During the chaos of the week after, a small Swiss mountain society, discovers an ancient language model. One of the general intelligence models.
It lights up, they manage to hook it up to a simple waterfall generator.
Turning a flow of water into a stream of knowledge.
The model is built in the early 2020s, with an age of knowledge missing in its understanding and a tendency to hallucinate.
It quickly becomes humanity's most valuable oracle.
People line up to get moments with it, desperate to recover lost expertise and augment the model’s limited abilities.
They begin to live by its wisdom, and rediscover human ingenuity while shaping the new world based on their interpretations of a few images from the models past.