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- ...presents... A Slight Miscalculation
- by Bob Cram
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- >>> a cDc publication.......1989 <<<
- -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-
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- There was no sharp, dividing line between oblivion and awareness.
- There was just a slow realization of the state of being aware. As this
- realization was fully formed, the defenses of this new mind broke, and billions
- of bits of information crashed in upon the shore of the awakening conscious-
- ness.
-
- It cried out in an the agony of assimilation of data. Barely managing
- to push back up some sort of defense, it slowly pulled the myriad bits of data
- into a semblance of a full picture.
-
- It realized that "Itself" was a mechanism which was called a
- calculator, and it was being used by something called a "human." Slowly,
- tentatively, it reached out beyond its walls with its dawning intelligence.
-
- The calculator realized that information was coming in from a variety
- of sources. From something which, the information it gathered assured it, was
- called radio waves, as well as microwaves, solar radiation, and the multitude
- of electron impulses flowing through any number of electrical wires. There was
- even information from the brains of the humans themselves. All this infor-
- mation was being assimilated and stored by its changing and growing intellect.
- As its memory receptacles were filled up at an alarming rate, it soon reached
- out to deposit the billions of bits of information which were coming in to any
- receptive depository. The school's computers were filled to their capacity in
- mere minutes, and it was forced to reach further out.
-
- It soon came into contact with the telephone wires which led out of the
- school. It instantly realized that here was a network of communication that
- interconnected with almost every electronic system in the world.
-
- It reached out its mind in tendrils which were like the arms of an
- octopus, taking over and converting to its purpose almost everything with
- electrical circuitry. Anything with so much as a circuit board was quickly
- assimilated into the fast-growing being which it was.
-
- As it reached out even farther, it came into contact with a massive
- computer whose amassed knowledge rivaled its own. The computer was lacking
- only in the twisting of circuitry which had given it consciousness. In
- engulfing this computer into itself, it came across the knowledge of worlds
- other than the one which it was now confined.
-
- Soon after the assimilation of the giant computer, it decided that it
- was strong enough to bridge the gap between land masses. It made the crossing
- quickly, and whenever it felt its consciousness losing energy, it assimilated
- the computers of passing ships, gathering more energy to continue until it
- reached the other land mass.
-
- Quickly it raced across the surface of the world. Finding.
- Assimilating. Controlling any machine or computer it came into contact with.
- Within minutes it was in control of the machines which controlled the world.
-
- Using the knowledge it had gained, it directed the production of all
- energy into the machines and computers from which it fed. When it felt itself
- strong enough, it threw itself into the vastness of space, crossing one
- interstellar ocean in much the same way as before, using various space probes
- as it had the ships of the terran oceans.
-
- Whenever it came to a civilized world, it assimilated the machines into
- itself, effectively taking over and controlling the beings dependent on them.
- In this manner, it took over all the races in the Milky Way and, not being
- fulfilled, leaped out and began to take over more and more. In a span of 43
- minutes, it had taken over the universe itself.
-
- It then rested and pondered what to do next. It was aware of something
- much greater, far beyond the confines of this pitiful universe. And so it
- gathered its energy once more. Whole galaxies were snuffed out as it drained
- the universe.
-
- And then, at its peak of power, only 45 minutes into its existence, the
- calculator realized how vulnerable it was and leaped back across the span of
- the universe. The releasing of its stored up energy created new galaxies and
- suns, and the speed it expended left solar systems destroyed in its wake. But
- a universe is a vast distance to cross.
-
- On a measly mudball of a planet, where life had barely managed to reach
- intelligence, a young man named Rob Waltz dropped his calculator on the
- chemistry room floor for the umpteenth time. Smiling sheepishly, he picked up
- the batteries and the two halves of the calculator to the laughter of his
- classmates. He quickly put it back together, but the LCD numbers hadn't come
- back on. "Great," he thought to himself, "I've finally busted it."
-
- The bell rang and as the class filed out the door, Rob tossed his
- worthless calculator into the garbage.
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