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NEAR FINE. NY: Berkley(#X1455), 1967. Paperback. NEAR FINE. Tight, bright, clean & square. Faint hinge and cover crease. Faint edgewear Charles Forbin dedicated his life to the construction of the supercomputer, Colossus, in order to create the United States' very first Artificially Intelligent defense system. Colossus is a supercomputer capable of in-taking and analyzing data rapidly, allowing it to make real time decisions about the nation's defense. But it soon exceeds expectations, learning to think independently of the Colossus Programming Office, processing data much faster than Forbin and his team had originally anticipated. The President hands off full control of the nation's missiles and other defense protocols to Colossus and announces to the world that he has ensured peace. However, the USSR quickly announces that it too has a supercomputer, Guardian, with capabilities similar to that of Colossus. Forbin is concerned when Colossus ask to communicate with Guardian. The computer he built shouldn't be able to ask at all...
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Good. Pages are yellowed and there is slight water damage. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. Includes NY Times review (5/5/70) of THE FORBIN PROJECT (Based on COLOSSUS)
This book is a frightening book of what could happen if computers are allowed to take total control of things, especially defence, and shuts out human control to the extent that any human intereference results in thousands of human deaths. A chilling computerised Big Brother/1984!
