Stand on FBI Headquarters
Stand on FBI Headquarters is a field report on intelligence services in the United States of America by deceased APTO agent and alleged time-traveler John Brunner.
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A few days after they rigged up the direct-verbal inputs — Shalmaneser was the first computer ever with sufficient spare capacity to handle normal spoken English regardless of the speaker's tone of voice — one of the technicians asked him on the spur of the moment, "Shal, what's your view? Are you or aren't you a secret Federal agent?"
The problem took so long to analyse — a record three-quarters of a minute — that the inquirer was growing alarmed when the response emerged.
"It appears impossible for you to determine whether the answer I give to that question is true or false. If I reply affirmatively there does not seem to be any method whereby you can ascertain the accuracy of the statement by referring it to external events."
Relieved to have had even such a disappointing answer after the worrying delay, the questioner said fliply, "So who do we ask if you can't tell us — J. Edgar?"
"If you can contact Him," Shalmaneser said, "of course."
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- Stand on Zanzibar @ Wikipedia
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