The cyberiad
1974; Association for Computing Machinery; Issue: 47 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1145/1045190.1045193
ISSN2331-1673
Autores Tópico(s)Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies
ResumoStanislaw Lem's Cyberiad chronicles the adventures of Their Most Sublime and Radiant Constructorships Trurl and Klapaucius, Delight and Terror of the Universe, as they sally forth offtimes to bring to distant lands the benefit of their expertise. Their machines could do anything: the Gnostotron, an ontologue computer, with its theostats adjusted to the proper EMF (epistomotive force), at first claimed that omnipotence is most omnipotent when one does nothing at all, but with its loquacity increased, produced a recipe for Altruizine. Another of their constructions, a machine that could make anything with an N was quite happy doing Nothing. A backtracking machine, an electropoet, simulated the entire growth of civilization (necessary for the proper growth of the program to produce proper verse); after going from fish to amphibian to reptile to mammal, something odd took place among the primates and instead of great apes, he came out with gray drapes but finally managed somehow. A backtalking machine, the creator of the Nth degree, made needles, nankeens, narghiles filled with nepenthe, nymphs, and naiads, but balked at the Latin natrium: "Look, old boy, if I could do everything starting with N in every possible language, I'd be a Machine That Could Do Everything in the Whole Alphabet, since any item you care to mention undoubtedly starts with N in one foreign language or another. It's not that easy. I can't go beyond what you programmed. So no sodium."
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