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"...there's a great affinity between writing poetry and SF."
- Dan Simmons
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| Multivac | ||
| A computer with millions of facts. |
| "...sometimes it took all night to count what everyone said and people were impatient. So they invented special machines which could look at the first few votes and compare them with the votes from the same places in previous years. That way the machine could compute how the total vote would be and who would be elected. You see?"
She nodded. "Like Multivac." "The first computers were much smaller than Multivac. Bu the machines grew bigger and they could tell how the election would go from fewer and fewer votes. Then, at last, they built Multivac and it can tell from just one voter." |
| From Franchise,
by Isaac Asimov. Published by Quinn Publishing in 1955 Additional resources -
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