Colossus

About this book

Charles Forbin has dedicated the last ten years of his life to the construction of his own supercomputer Colossus rejecting romantic and social endeavors in order to create the United States very first Artificially Intelligent defense system. Colossus is a supercomputer capable of in-taking and analyzing data rapidly allowing it to make real time decisions about the nations defense. But Colossus soon exceeds even Forbins calculated expectations learning to think independently of the Colossus Programming Office processing data over one hundred times faster than Forbin and his team had originally anticipated. The President hands off full control of the nations missiles and other defense protocols to Colossus and makes the announcement to the world that he has ensured peace. However the USSR quickly announces that it too has a supercomputer Guardian with capabilities similar to that of Colossus. Forbin is concerned when Colossus asks-asks-to communicate with Guardian. The computer he built shouldnt be able to ask at all . . .