Code of the Krillitanes by Justin Richards

Author:Justin Richards [Richards, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781846079283
Google: vXeWQAAACAAJ
Amazon: 1846079284
Publisher: BBC BOOKS
Published: 2010-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

‘You have no idea, do you,’ Sir Manning said. His voice was rising in pitch and volume. ‘No idea at all what we are really doing. How dare you presume to tell me how to run my firm?’

‘ Our firm,’ Purcell said, but he was hesitant now. He seemed surprised at Sir Manning’s sudden anger.

‘You thought you could make a quick few pounds out of potato crisps and gullible customers,’ Sir Manning ranted.

‘That’s all you were in it for. Well, no longer. Your involvement ends, here and now.’

The shareholders looked at each other, surprised and confused.

‘Is he offering to buy us out?’ a woman in a blue dress asked the man beside her.

‘All you think about is money,’ Sir Manning told her. ‘I am trying to create life!’

There was silence. Everyone stared at Sir Manning.

‘Now we’re getting somewhere,’ the Doctor whispered to Henry as they watched from their hiding place.

‘You heard me – life!’ Sir Manning looked round the table. ‘That’s why we needed your money, and why we now need every penny of profit. We have done what no other firm can do. We have hijacked the internet.’

Purcell stared in utter surprise. ‘What?’

‘That’s right. When any computer links to the Brainy_

Crisps website, it is instantly infected with our code. The code links infected computers together over the internet, then finds and links in every bit of computing power too. Oh, we only steal a little bit of computing power from each one, but hundreds of millions of computers are working away for us.

They are working on the equations and formulae provided by the people who have eaten our crisps.’

Miss Sark stood beside her boss. ‘Almost everyone who eats Brainy Crisps goes to our website to find out how much more brainy they’ve become. They think they’re playing a game, or answering a pop-up question. They think they’re rating the usefulness of the site and the tastiness of the crisps. In fact, they are all slowly solving the overall problem.

They are solving it with improved intelligence from the Brainy Crisps and the processing power of the entire internet.

Purcell and the other shareholders were really confused now. ‘But why? What problem are they solving?’

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