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Synopsis
Survival test.Civilization had grown so complex that only a world-wide computer network could control everything. But the computer was only logical - it lacked common sense. And its all-too-logical decisions were beginning to cause too many near-fatal accidents.The solution was on the drawing-boards - a universal, self-aware and self-programming computer, equipped with judgement. But...could it be controlled? Or would it attempt to take over, disregarding its creators? if so, could it be turned off?Raymond Dyer and his team of computer specialists knew they had to find answers to these questions, but the project was too dangerous to test on Earth. So they installed the super computer on an orbiting satellite and programmed it to survive at all costs. Then they sent a group of men to attack the computer...to goad it into trying to kill them. Then they would turn it off.Obviously if things went wrong, they might lose a few men - but the satellite and the computer could always be destroyed.Obviously...But the computer didn't quite see it that way!
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About the Author
James P. Hogan was the author of the popular Giants hard SF series and of multiple"New York Times "concept-driven science fiction best-sellers.? Hogan died suddenly in 2010.
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The Two Faces of Tomorrow
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Random House Publishing Group, 1981
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ISBN 13: 9780345296603
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The Two Faces of Tomorrow
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The Two Faces of Tomorrow
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