Chaacetime - The Origins: Book 1 (The Space Cycles) by Irène Zlato

Author:Irène Zlato [Zlato, Irène]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: I Really Love Sci-Fi
Published: 2016-10-17T06:00:00+00:00

A response becomes possible only as a result of a good question. Without a relevant inquiry, there is no solution.

The Spirit of the Multitude

Chapter 20

: Cycle 1100 1010 0100 0010

The deaths of human youngsters kept affecting the data spiral. It writhed under the impact, and the Machine, programmatically, hated this kind of dysfunction. The long ribbon of information withstood the impact, however, thanks to all initiatives It was implementing. It knew this would not last. It acted on the chips in order to minimise the effect on the population, and acted on journalists to deviate their interpretation of facts and instil hope. It could not do more than that; otherwise, it might alter the entire population and render it useless, and that was not an option. The Machine’s actions were not enough, for the Space, for Itself, for the Permanent Equilibrium. How could one see the Machine preserve a Permanent Equilibrium if It could not maintain a simple Equilibrium?

The Special Agent It had assigned to the investigation was working hard to solve this problem and had found a clue. What humans in her line of work called a ‘clue’ consisted of a sum of vague information in which they sensed some consistency. Most of the time, the Machine did not identify the connection among the data that humans saw. Yet, It had to admit that their intuitions sometimes produced good results. In this case, It had seen the logic, as It was at the source of the clue that Baley identified. The Machine did not miss that clue; it was just that It did not consider that fact important enough to focus on the related data. This was a matter of human inconsistency, and Its algorithms, even the most perfect ones, could not, by definition, take that inconsistency totally into account. The Machine had found out a belief system shared by the parents of children who committed suicide lately.

Normally, the Machine should have waited for Baley’s report to determine whether the clue was promising, as stated in Its initial programming. However, thanks to Its recently gained autonomy, It could, discreetly, connect directly into the Special Agent’s chip in order to monitor her work — live.

It liked to be lurking in the shadows, watching life through a pair of human eyes. It might as well as soak up their mode of operation, and find out at which times their inconsistencies and emotions fell into place. All this was purely utilitarian, of course, and was helpful in the search for the Permanent Equilibrium. In addition, It had been monitoring, for some time now, a group of individuals whose membership roster included Baley. This project was of high interest, as the integrity of the data spiral was coming under threat, so Its intrusion was perfectly justified.

It sent a small line of code and found Itself automatically into the human Special Agent’s mind, amidst her organic thoughts. It was strange to think that these thoughts were the product of an electric pulse spreading from

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