You could start off like this.
Stakeholder Capitalism, do you know what it is?
No.
OK, it/s a scheme made up to fleece money from farmers and the peasentry in general by the Barons which the aquiesence of the King.
OK, a bit like now then?
Not really. You see in my future-time we are too warm and there's too much carbon dioxide .. the Thames no longer freezes over and the Danes had to quit Greenland .. you know Greenland..? and err carbon dioxide??
No.
OK well one is an invisible vapour that is vital to life, when we breath we exhale it. It's got one atom of carbon and two atoms of oxygen ... you know what an atom is?
No.
OK well it's something that's very small and different types exist in everything. You see that puddle?
Yes.
Well that's atoms of hydrogen and oxygen, in a ratio of 2:1 and combined they make water, either frozen, liquid or as a gas, like when you boil water and some escapes as vapour. Anyway, the king thinks that by taxing carbon dioxide he can get a lot richer, and he's ok with artificial intelligence to keep an eye on people to make sure they don't get away without paying him. It's all run by the Barons and he takes a cut.
artificial Intelligence?
Yes, it's err, it's a .. it's a system based on 'logic', invented by a bloke with a name like 'cabbage', but he was called Babbage. If you have a positive and a negative, and arrange them in a string of 8 you have a combination that can be assigned a meaning. You follow me?
Not really, but carry on.
Well by putting a load of 1s and zeros in a long series of strings a 'machine' a bit like your plough over there but with more parts can read that 'data' or 'information' and remember it. It can do this very fast and never gets tired or emotional or asks for a pay rise or a food break. It can leave the information and go away and do some other 'work' and then come back to that information it 'saved' and instantly recall it. The info, or data, is kept in a 'file'.
A file? Like this one [holds up large worn out Bastard file]
No, it's not a file like that for removing width off metal, it's a file for storing things in. Our machine can take data, let's say about you, your name, age, appearance details, what you like and don't like, what you do, who you do it with and how often, if you've seen a doctor recently, how much land you have and what you earned in the last 20 years. We can save that in a file and get the artificial intelligence to access it every time we pull you over for speeding.
Speeding?
Never mind.
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Imagine trying to explain AI to a Medieval peasant.