But maybe said sentient beings will just obliterate us anyway, since we'll just register as a substandard intelligence that has a bizarre fascination with running high-powered PCs around the clock in search of meaningless data with only fictional value.
And perhaps, who knows, we can return to the old ways of making money: by making stuff and selling it instead of through ever more opaque financial dealings based upon fictional future value, a mountain of debt, and way over-leveraged derivative products.
These and other departures from formal history do, indeed, belie "the fiction that fictional accounts lack historical value".
Alan Yentob did seem always to be coming in carrying his fold-up bike, the preferred mode of transportation of W1A's fictional head of values, Ian Fletcher Hugh Bonnevillee).
During the BBC2 satirical comedy series W1A, Ian Fletcher, the BBC's fictional head of values, faces a real-time learning opportunity going forward.
One BBC executive who can probably feel secure in his post is the fictional head of values from W1A played by Hugh Bonneville, who was compering a Media Society dinner last week celebrating sports broadcaster Clare Balding.
Those educators who selected a reading program that valued fictional works presumably thought that was an appropriate emphasis.
She reluctantly accepts shop vouchers and mini-mart discounts, and watches as the price of a fictional shag (the value of her virtual virtue) goes down and down.
Much of the book's power, in fact, comes from the way it brings together these different fictional genres and the values — observation, feeling, erudition — to which they're linked.
These assigned values are fictional, subjective and based on our experience.
