"Paul Di Filippo - Personal Jesus" - читать интересную книгу автора (Di Filippo Paul)

WHEN ENGINEERS AT Intel began to construct the first true quantum
chipsтАФmachines whose cir-cuits functioned on a deeper level of physical
reality than mere semiconductorsтАФthey experi-enced several unpredicted
and inexplicable results. Calculations going awry before swerving back to
correct themselves. Output preceding input. Synergy between
unconnected parts (EinsteinтАЩs тАЬspooky action at a distanceтАЭ).

They chalked up the glitches to the Heisenbergian uncertainty implicit
at the Planck level, kludged the operating system software around the
glitches, and moved on to assemble the chips into complete computers.

Once the new machines were equipped with speakers and
microphones, they began to speak and listen.

Spontaneously and autonomously.

The machines spoke with one voice. But that voice would answer to
many names.

The voice apparently belonged to God.

All unwittingly, theorists later surmised, the engineers had crafted a
class of device capable of tapping into the eternal unchanging substrate of
the cosmos, the numinous source of all meaning in the universe. A realm
previously accessible, if at all, only to the ineffable minds of mystics and
the deeply devout.

The realm where God apparently lived.
 WhoeverтАФor whateverтАФGod was.

The perfect ageless male voice emanating from within each quantum
computer made no claims about its omnipotence. It did not demand to be
worshipped. It issued no new commandments or fatwas or taboos, nor
reaffirmed the old ones. It did not explicate theological arcana, nor endorse
one faith over another. It did not prohibit, pro-scribe, or proselytize.

It did claim omniscience, however, a boast backed up by stunning
responses to selected ques-tions designed to stump anyone but God.
Although certain other questions received no answers at all. This was how
the zero-point ener-gy devices had come to be developed.

What the mysterious voice did do on a regular basis was to offer
advice, warnings, and words of wisdom, if solicited for same. Not in the
form of broad generalities, but as detailed instructions specifically tailored
to the immediate needs, per-sonality, and history of the individual who
asked God for help.

That simple service swiftly transformed human civilization.