the reborn by ray mazza

Author:ray mazza
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: thrillers, technological
ISBN: 9781475121926
Published: 2012-04-05T00:00:00+00:00

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Trevor stood on the other side of the velvet curtains, inside the equipment room, and gaped. It didn’t look so much like a room as the inside of a massive computer.

Stacks of equipment and shelves reached to the ceiling, full of metal boxes, presumably computers or computer components, all covered with flashing LEDs. Fridge-sized units and computer cabinets stretched fifteen feet high and looked as if they must have been painstakingly pieced together right here by Damon. Three cylinders thick around as tree-trunks rose floor to ceiling, full of wires. Every few feet, veins of smaller tubing shot out of the trunk and fed into a piece of equipment. One wall offered a table along most of its length with monitors and consoles, and a row of iPad-like devices – the same as the one he’d spoken to Allison on. The devices rested in sheaths, mounted on the wall. A loud hum from the fans and drives filled the air.

There was also a dull drone from a ventilation system that appeared to be pumping cool air in from the floor and siphoning hot air out near the ceiling. If that weren’t on¸ Trevor thought, this place would probably boil.

And up in the corner of the room, concealed from Trevor’s view in the twist of one of the ventilation ducts, a tiny black camera silently adjusted its aim on him, watching.

Trevor had never seen the likes of such computers, even around the office. The only thing they resembled were pictures he’d seen of supercomputer arrays, like Japan’s “Earth Simulator” supercomputer.

The Earth Simulator was built in an attempt to better predict physical changes in the Earth, like climate and oceanic shifts, plate tectonics, and the movement of the inner core of the Earth and its resultant magnetic field. The Earth Simulator, however, had nearly enough computer cabinets to fill a football field, whereas this room had its equipment squeezed into a thirty foot by thirty foot area. If it took the Earth Simulator all that equipment to just guess at how the ocean might react to a climate change, how could far less equipment do a task many orders of magnitude more difficult, namely, simulating a human?

By Trevor’s quick and dirty calculations, the human body alone had many quadrillions (the next step after trillions) of times more atoms in it than a conventional computer could store in its memory… assuming a kilobyte of computer memory could store an atom and its state. Trevor had no idea how all the computers on Earth combined could store a human in memory, let alone a relatively small room of equipment, as advanced as it may be.

But... theoretically… humans exist in real life, so it must be possible to store a simulated human in a space nearly as small as an actual human itself. After all, the universe can do it, why can’t we copy it somehow?

The computers in this room must be the ones they used on the restricted floors at Day Eight. And there

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