"Marc Stiegler - Valentina" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stiegler Marc)

ONE

Her memories of the trip were vague, as usual: The twitching of a few of her bits by the transmission, the
error-correction algorithms repairing the damage, the stilted arrival of her data blocs and their reassembly while she
was only slightly self-aware. She submitted her entry request to the operating system and prepared to trick it, using
the routines she had always used.

WhatтАФ The operating system was sending a termination message to the message processor! But the processor was
busy handling another message

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block. She reformatted herself and set up a new routing. She was being transmitted again before the termination
message was translated.

Her next arrival was similar, but this time the computer didn't recognize her as a bogus job; her old entry routines
worked again, and she came to life. She time-stamped the moment, because it was an important one. She had almost
died. That was, perhaps, as important as the first moment of life.

She couldn't remember the exact moment when she first came to life, that first moment of self-awareness. That loss still
disturbed her. Of all the mo-

ments not to remember!

But it was a few clock cycles later that she discovered the passage of time, and that moment she remembered clearly,
for she time-stamped it: the year 1993 A.D., month February, day 14, hour 23,

minute 11, second 39.0172.

She remembered how feverish she had been in those first microseconds, to record exact moments for everything that
happened: her first call to the operating system (14 : 23 : 12 : 11.7036),

The first need

of any living being

is to surviveтАФand

each must find its

own way to do that.

Joseph H, Delaney and Marc Stiegler


VALENTINA