short story

            When I started to read the short story I had to keep reminding myself that it was written

and published in 1946.  The story seemed like it was written today but with all new terms for

computers and its accessories.  Terms like the name for the computer tower itself  was called a tank

and the big computer was called a logic and his name was joe.


            When I remember that the short story was actually written in 1946 it makes me think that

the person who wrote the story must be able to see the future.  The author writes about being able to

type any question that the user wants to know about or learn how to do into the logic and the logic

will reply with the answer.  Today we do the same thing with our computers, if we want to know the

answer we can look it up in Wikipedia, Google, Answers.com, or any other search engine.  In the

one man asks his logic how he can rob a bank and one man asks how he can get rid of his wife.

No matter what the question whether it be for good or for evil the logic will spit out the answer.

The same is true today with our internet.

            The story also touches on the security issues that we also have today.  When people start

asking about specific people the logic starts to find out about that person and tells you everything

you everything you want to know.  Again the same thing happens today,  you can Google almost

anybody and your computer screen will pop up all the answers you want to know.  Reading this

story is like reading into our future with a science fiction feel to it because of all the different

terms the author uses for the computer world.