"James L. Halperin - The Truth Machine" - читать интересную книгу автора (Halperin James L)

am an Intel 22g CP (22 billion instructions per microsecond contextual processor)
from the series of 2046, specially designed for reportage. IтАЩve been programmed
to write in journalistic style, so donтАЩt expect scintillating metaphors or artistic
imagery. If any show up on these pages, please assume they were added during
editing, or that I am reporting someone elseтАЩs thoughts. What youтАЩll get from me
are facts. When the photons strike just right, IтАЩm even capable of some marginal
irony or humor. But if youтАЩd prefer to read a composition reminiscent of
Hemingway, I suggest you stick with human authors, or at least the output of a
44g PIM (parallel internal memory) computer with full literary mapping
applications.
Frankly however, you might wish to endure my writings. Stationed in
Dallas, Texas, I have been favored with exceptional access to Randall Petersen
Armstrong and David West, the two most influential people of the 21st century.
Their stories are complex, and I have accumulated many facts of which youтАЩre
certainly unaware.

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 THE TRUTH MACHINE

My owner, Mr. Thomas L. Mosely, became a reporter for the Dallas News
Syndicate (at the time it was a тАЬnewspaperтАЭ called the Dallas Morning News) in
June 2010, long before I was manufactured. Over these past 40 years, Armstrong
and West have granted him over 700 hours of one-on-one interviews, and I enjoy
real-time access to all but the most private of their archives.
Mosely also wrote the only family-authorized biography of Harold Edward
Kilmer, who has come to symbolize the Swift and Sure Anti-Crime laws of 2005.
Presumably, had Kilmer been given a scip 1, he would still be alive today. Thus his
tragedy eloquently demonstrates the value of the Armstrong Cerebral Image
Processor (ACIP), otherwise known as the Truth Machine.
With all this background, and the Armstrong trial so recently concluded, it
would seem a waste for me not to write this narrative.
The appeal decision wonтАЩt be rendered for at least two weeks, not in time
to include before we disseminate this document. Updates will be available later,
but may be unneeded. Since his trial has been the most widely followed news
story of the third millennium, virtually every person in the world will learn of
ArmstrongтАЩs fate at the same time.
Thanks to his ACIP, Mosely and I have come to know Armstrong in a way
that would not have been possible 26 years ago. Our goal is for you readers of
The Truth Machine to understand him as well as we do. We both believe it would
be best if the World Tribunal were merciful. Not to underplay the seriousness of his
crimes; Armstrong has done you far more good than harm. In fact his invention
may have single-handedly diverted the human raceтАЩs relentless march toward self-
destruction. It seems illogical to kill him or even reduce his capacity to further
contribute to scientific progress. Unfortunately the strict sentencing guidelines
appear to offer little hope of leniency.
But enough speculation; we will all know the TribunalтАЩs decision soon
enough.