All of it.Īnd finally, the machines expanded so much, became so capable of building and refitting themselves, grew so wise and potent, that they sensed one another. Every war ever fought, every campaign, every incursion, every holy crusade. ![]() From Aquinas to Zola, from archaeology to zoology, from America to Zaire. ![]() Louis by a crazed ex-postal worker with an Uzi. Five point six miles straight down, under the weight of the world.Īnd they were all put in operative mode, and were fed everything there was to know about the human race, from our first murder by crushing the skull of a fellow pithecanthropoid with a bit of igneous rock, to the recent mass slaughter at a McDonald's in East St. The American computer, co-sponsored by Great Britain and Israel and other "interested" nations, named the Allied Mastercomputer (or AM, for short), was hidden beneath the Rockies. Six point three miles deep, far from the prying eyes of U2 flyovers and tectonic scans. The Russian mechanism in all its awesome complexity went to the deep well beneath the Urals. Five miles down, protected from the heat of the Earth's motel core. The Chinese computer was sunk in the frozen Manchurian steppes. What none of us knew was that during the years 1945 to 1989, the three great superpowers had set in motion secret projects that would permit vast subterranean complexes of self-repairing computers to wage a global war too complex for mere human brains to oversee. ![]() No more threat of war, and the world moved forward into a new age of thousands of brushfire wars in countries no one had ever even heard of. But all that ended and the threat of nuclear holocaust blew away as lightly as the tabloids that fueled the paranoia. For most of the 20th century the human race lived in a state of repressed panic and diminution of personal freedoms. Cold war paranoia and hysteria dominated the civilized world in one form or another from the Russian Revolution in 1917 to the crumbling of the Berlin wall in 1989.
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