"Martha Soukup - Things Not Seen" - читать интересную книгу автора (Soukup Martha)

"Nineteen, now. But who's keeping track?"



Yonamura was peering into a microscope and did not look up. "Mr. Drobisch, we've nothing to talk
about. I've told you everything I know."

"I don't need you to tell me everything, Dr. Yonamura."

"Ms. Erickson?" Yonamura pushed her hair back. "I don't think it's a good idea for you to be here."
"Is it bugged?"

"Bugged? Oh, you mean a microphone. No, I don'tтАФI don't think so. I think I found it." She avoided
Ginnie's eye, as she had the first time they met. "I really have nothing to tell you about your robot."

"I want to mention a couple of things to you. I want to know if I'm understanding things right. If I do, you
have nothing to worry about from me."

Yonamura was silent, watching her. "I've seen Dr. Herrera's dissertation. It was about an idea called
'induced heuristics.' I don't know what you brought to the project, but I want to guess. I want to guess
you can force-grow clones to early maturity."

"I don't know why you think so." "You might want to know that I've discovered a bug in the robot after
all. Actually, I've discovered the programming fix that covers up a bug." Yonamura folded her hands in
her lap and waited.

"I think when they were designing the robot, it had a glitch that made it think it had seen the same thing
more than once. A sort of robot deja vu. If you rolled a ball in front of it, it might think it saw that ball roll
by twice, or, worst case, it might get stuck in a loop and see nothing but that ball roll by, an infinite
number of times. That would be a problem."

"1 suppose it would. It's not my specialty."

"Dr. Herrera understood computers, though. And perception, and behavior. He needed all of that for the
work you were doing, didn't he? You grow the clones, he works on their brains."

"Dr. Herrera's work was classified. And difficult.Even if I were at liberty to explain it to you, I wouldn't
be able to."

"That's OK. I'll make a crude guess. Herrera was inventing a way to put behaviors into empty brains.
Like the brains of force-grown clones. It's the only thing I can think of that explains why Herrera's still
alive. Are you in contact with him? Do you know where he is?"

Yonamura leapt to her feet. "Ms. Erickson! Dr. Herrera is dead! How can you sayтАФ"

"Settle down! I'm just babbling nonsense. Not even worth repeating outside this room. Just let me finish.
If you two were working on a project to turn blank-minded clones into programmed zombies, and if he
wanted outтАФif he didn't like what he thought was going to be done with it, but he was afraid
Biolnnovations or its clients would go after him if he ranтАФyou could use the robot's little undocumented