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THE TRUTH MACHINE
A Journey into the Near Future
by James L. Halperin

┬й Copyright 1996, James L. Halperin

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The technological and political predictions dated
after 1995, although based on extensive research,
are fictional.

Truth be told, to observe the future without altering
it is a scientific impossibility. But if your views
remain fluid, even a false vision is far more
valuable than no vision at all.
 JAMES L. HALPERIN



Intel 22g CP-TLMos
Dallas, TexasтАФJuly 15, 2050

Silently, you sit in a courtroom as the evidence unfolds against you. You
can only watch and listenтАФin frustration, fear, and disbelief. You cannot prove
your innocence, because there is no Truth Machine. Instead you pray for a
miracle, a divine intervention to save your life. But the miracle never comes. Later,
as they strap you to a table to receive the lethal injection that will steal your every
possession and dream, you wonder if even the people you love, and who love you,
secretly believe you are guilty.
That is not fiction. As recently as 26 years ago, before the Truth Machine
remade our world, it happened all the time.

As of March 1, 2024, Randall Petersen Armstrong, only 34 years old, had
already built the worldтАЩs most profitable corporation, becoming the wealthiest
person in human history. On that day, for reasons I will try to help you understand,
he chose to commit one of the greatest frauds of this millennium. Yet fraud would
not be his worst offense. It was only the first in his now-infamous series of crimes
that, astonishingly, would remain undiscovered for 25 years.

Since you plan to read these words, youтАЩll want to know who wrote them. I