Defense network computers. New, powerful. Hooked into everything.
Trusted to run it all. They say it got smart. A new order of intelligence.
saw all humans a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided
our fate in a microsecond.
brute force adj.
Describes a primitive programming style
one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing
power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the
problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive
methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature
cries aloud that He does exist; that there is a supreme intelligence, an
immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own
dependence on it....