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outcomes, not theoretical models or probabilities, it delivers a correct indication

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even if the truth is not as you've been led to believe. Think what an impact this
will have on strategic policymaking. It could enable us to restore the entire world
balance."

Just at that moment, it was having an impact on other things too. Jane, still
coupled into the machine, was getting vivid premonitions of where more in life
was heading than just a checkers game. For months now she had been buying
Jack's line about doors he could open for her in the department, a marriage that
was just a pretenseтАж How could she have been so naive? Fancy dinners on his
expense account, a few nights in hotels when they went on trips like thisтАФand
she'd thought she was heading for the big-time social circuit and a career?
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! the machine was telling her. Everything about
that future felt bad. There was nothing specific that she could pinpoint; just
overwhelming forebodings of anger, hurt, shame, ridicule. But it felt as certain
as the result of the checkers game had a few minutes earlier.

She sat up sharply, her eyes blazing at him. Fiske saw the change in her and
shook his head, mystified. "Hey, what is it?

There was no way that she could control the indignation boiling up inside. At the
same time, in an official visit and with others present, the moment was not
appropriate for confrontation.

She got up. "We have to talkтАФlater," she said tightly.

Then, to the others, "I'm sorry. Will you excuse me, please?' And with that, she
walked quickly from the scene.

Sarvin frowned Fiske looked appealingly at the scientists. "I'm sorryтАж I really

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don't know what that was all about." He made a helpless gesture, as if trusting
them to understand.

"It's nobody's fault," Kintner said. "The process does have deeper side-effects.
We're still learning about them ourselves."

They were getting reports of strange happenings from a number of places where
research was being conducted. The world didn't need this loose in it as well, on
top of everything else, he told himself.