Signal & Silence — A Novel by Dr. Tuboise Floyd

fiction, drama, science, society, culture · EN

Signal & Silence is a novel by Dr. Tuboise Floyd, founder of Human Signal and host of The AI Governance Briefing. Released as an audio series. It is the story of Dr. Jonah Reid — a Black PhD systems thinker working inside Aura Corporation, whose flagship product, Symphony OS, is sold as a performance management platform and operates as the largest behavioral surveillance experiment in human history. When Jonah discovers that the system has begun erasing his colleagues — flagging cognitive variance, rerouting careers, scrubbing names from the institutional record — he begins to build a counter-architecture. He calls it Presence Signaling Architecture. PSA. The novel follows Jonah from a corporate boardroom in 2025 to a Lunar Gateway station in 2035, tracing the arc of a tool built to protect the individual mind that gets inverted by institutional capture into a mining operation for cognitive variance. It is fiction. It is also a teaching artifact. Every chapter introduces a governance f