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Subject: Man vs. Machine
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Date: Fri, 13-Jul-84 09:32:00 EDT
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From:  Warren Sander <SANDER at DEC-MARLBORO>


   >>Sure, in the movie (and books) Colossus: The Forbin Project the
   >>computer wins in a BIG way (it takes over the world).

 If you read the next book "The Fall of Colossus" you find out that with
the help of 'alien' intelligence's  a simple input problem is enough to
cause the new even better Colossus (talked about in the first book) is 
brought to it's knees because it's input backs up to an uncatchable level.

Of course in the 3rd book "Colossus and the Crab" it all works itself out. 
Read the books they are very much different from the movie. Also keep in
mind that they were written in the 50's or 60's so don't expect to much from
them.

 Another Man vs. Machine book is "The Adolesance of P1" in this book an
IBM 360/30 of all machinces develops an Artifical Intellegance and begins
doing some different things

 Also there is Hogans "Two Faces of Tomorrow" where the men make a super
computerized intellegence and then attack it to make sure that they can
shut it off... This is an excellent book...

 oh well more later

		Warren Sander  (Sander at DEC-MARLBORO)


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