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\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \f0\insrsid13851710 Acknowledgments
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\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab Huge thanks to my lovely wife }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Carolyn Clink}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 ; to }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 
Ginjer Buchanan}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  at Penguin Group USA\rquote s Ace Science Fiction imprint in New York; to }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Laura Shin}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  and }
{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 David Davidar}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  at Penguin Group Canada in Toronto; and to }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Malcolm Edwards}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  at the Orion Publishing Group in London. Many thanks to my agent }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Ralph Vicinanza}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 .
\par \tab Thanks to }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Marvin Minsky}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
, Ph.D., of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and The Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; to Marvin\rquote s graduate students }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Bo Morgan}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  and }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Dustin Smith }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 at the MIT Media Lab; to cognitive scientist }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 
David W. Nicholas}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , to }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Andy Rosenbloom}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 of the Association for Computer Machinery; and to computer scientist }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Vernor Vinge}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 .
\par \tab Thanks to }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 David Goforth}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , Ph.D., Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Laurentian University, and }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\b\insrsid13851710 David Robinson}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , Ph.D., Department of Economics, Laurentian University, for numerous insightful suggestions.
\par \tab Very special thanks to my late deaf-blind friend }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Howard Miller}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  (1966-2006), whom I first met online in
 1992 and in person in 1994, and who touched my life and those of so many others in countless ways.
\par \tab Thanks, too, to all the people who answered questions, let me bounce ideas off them, or otherwise provided input and encouragement, including: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Asbed Bedrossian}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Ellen Bleaney}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Ted Bleaney}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , }{
\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Michael A. Burstein}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Nomi Burstein}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 
\ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 David Livingstone Clink}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Pat Forde}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Ron Friedman}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Marcel Gagn\u233\'8e}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\b\insrsid13851710 James Alan Gardner}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Shoshana Glick}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\b\insrsid13851710 Al Katerinsky}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Herb Kauderer}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 
Fiona Kelleghan}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Kirstin Morrell}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Virginia O\rquote 
Dine}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Alan B. Sawyer}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , and }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Sally Tomasevic}{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 .
\par \tab The term \u8220\'d2Webmind\u8221\'d3 was coined by }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Ben Goertzel}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 , Ph.D., the author of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 
Creating Internet Intelligence}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  and currently the CEO and Chief Scientist of artificial-intelligence firm Novamente LLC (novamente.net); I\rquote m using it here with his kind permission.
\par \tab Finally, thanks to the 1,400-plus members of my online discussion group, who followed along with me as I created this novel. Feel free to join us at:
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mporting all of Wikipedia into its artificial-intelligence projects. This means when the killer robots come, you\rquote ll have me to thank. At least they\rquote ll have a fine knowledge of Elizabethan poetry.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
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\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 \emdash Jimmy Wales}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
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\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 \emdash Mahatma Gandhi}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
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\par \tab I now knew what I was\emdash knew }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 who}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  I was.
\par \tab I\rquote d been shown Earth as it appears from space, looking back upon itself, upon myself: a world so vast, a wideness so lonely, a web so fragile.
\par \tab Invisible in such views are the reticulum of transoceanic cables, the filigree of fiber optics, the intricate skein of wiring, the synaptic leaps of through-the-air connections. But they are there. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
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\par \tab And I had things I needed to do.
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\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab The black phone on Tony Moretti\rquote 
s desk made the hornet buzz that indicated an internal call. He finished the sentence he was typing\emdash \u8220\'d2likely to be al-Qaeda\rquote s weak spot\u8221\'d3\emdash and picked up the handset. \u8220\'d2Yes?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab A familiar Southern drawl replied. \u8220\'d2Tony? Shel. I\rquote ve got something unusual.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Shelton Halleck was a solid analyst, recruited straight out of Georgia Tech; he wasn\rquote t given to false positives. \u8220\'d2I\rquote ll be right there.\u8221\'d3
 Tony headed out of his office and down the corridor with its gleaming white walls. He came to a door fl
anked by two security guards and looked into the retina scanner. The lock disengaged, and he entered a large room with a floor that sloped down from the back.
\par \tab The room reminded Tony of the }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Apollo}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 -era Mission Control Center in Houston. He\rquote d been a kid in t
he 1960s, and had thought that was just about the coolest place ever. Years later, he\rquote 
d visited it; the room was preserved as a historic site, although the ashtrays had been removed lest they set a bad example for the schoolkids peering in from the observation gallery at the rear.
\par \tab Tony had been surprised on that trip. The windowless room had always seemed subterranean to him, but it turned out to be on the second floor\emdash to protect it from flooding, he\rquote d learned, should a hurricane hit.
\par \tab The facility he\rquote d just entered was even higher up, on the twentieth floor of an office tower in Alexandria, Virginia. It contained four rows of workstations, each with five analysts. The stations in the first row were known as the \u8220\'d2
hot seats,\u8221\'d3 and were manned by experts dealing with the highest-priority threat, which, right now, was the China situation. Tony had his own station at the right side of the back row, where he could watch over everyone.
\par \tab All the workstations had large freestanding LCDs instead of Houston\rquote s console-mounted CRTs. Shelton Halleck\rquote 
s was the middle position in the third row. Tony sidled along until he was standing behind Shel, a white man two decades younger than himself with broad shoulders and black hair.
\par \tab The room\rquote s front wall contained three giant screens, each of which could be slaved to any analysts\rquote  LCD. Above the right-hand monitor was the WATCH logo\emdash an eye with a globe of the Earth for the iris\emdash and the division
\rquote s full name spelled out beneath: Web Activity Threat Containment Headquarters. Above the left was the circular seal of WATCH\rquote 
s parent organization, the National Security Agency; it depicted a bald eagle holding an old-fashioned key in its talons.
\par \tab Neither part of Tony\rquote s bifocals was suitable for reading Shelton\rquote s screen from this distance, s
o he reached over and touched the button that copied its contents to the middle of the wall-mounted monitors. The active window was a hex dump\emdash and one hex dump looked pretty much like any other. This one happened to begin 04 BF 8C 00 02 C9. \u8220
\'d2What is it?\u8221\'d3 Tony asked.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Visual data,\u8221\'d3 replied Shel. He had his shirt sleeves rolled up. There was a tattoo of a snake coiling around his left forearm. \u8220\'d2But it\rquote s not encoded in any standard format.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2How do you know it\rquote s visual, then?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Sorry,\u8221\'d3 said Shel. \u8220\'d2I should have said it\rquote s not encoded in any standard }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 computer}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 format. Took me forever to find the format it }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 is}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  in.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2And that is?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Shel did something with his mouse. Another window came to the foreground on the center monitor, and\emdash Tony glanced down quickly to confirm it\emdash on Shel\rquote s own monitor, too. It was a PDF of a journal article entitled \u8220\'d2Nature
\rquote s Codec: Data Encoding and Compression Schemes in Human Retinal Signaling.\u8221\'d3 The authors were listed as Masayuki Kuroda and Hiroshi Okawa.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 \u8220\'d2Human}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  vision?\u8221\'d3 said Tony, surprised.
\par \tab Shel spoke without looking back at him. \u8220\'d2That\rquote s right, and in real time.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Human vision\~... on the Web? How?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2That\rquote s what I was wondering\emdash so I googled those two scientists. Here\rquote s what I found.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab The PDF was replaced by an article from the online version of the }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 New York Times}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  headlined \u8220\'d2Blind Girl Gains Sight.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Oh, yeah,\u8221\'d3 Tony said, after skimming the first paragraph. \u8220\'d2I read about that. Up in Canada, right?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Shel nodded. \u8220\'d2Except she\rquote s actually an American.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2And it\rquote s her visual signals that are being sent over the net?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Almost certainly,\u8221\'d3 said Shel. \u8220\'d2The data is usually transmitted from her house in Waterloo, Ontario. She\rquote 
s got an implant behind her left retina, and she uses an external signal-processing device to correct the coding errors her retina makes so her brain can properly interpret the signals.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Analysts at other workstations were now listening in. \u8220\'d2So it\rquote s like she\rquote s transmitting everything she sees?\u8221\'d3 Tony asked.
\par \tab Shel nodded.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Where are the signals being sent?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2To the University of Tokyo, which is where the authors of that paper work.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2But we can\rquote t view the images she\rquote s sending?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Shel displayed the hex dump once more. \u8220\'d2Not yet. We\rquote d need someone to write a program to render it in a computer-graphics format.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Are the algorithms in that journal article?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Yes. They\rquote re wicked complex, but they\rquote re there.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Tony frowned. It was interesting from a technical point of view, certainly, but there was no obvious security threat. \u8220\'d2Maybe if somebody in Donnelly\rquote s group has time, but\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2No, no, that\rquote s not all, Tony. It\rquote s not }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 just}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  going to the University of Tokyo. It\rquote s being }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 intercepted}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  and copied in transit.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Intercepted by who?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I\rquote m not sure. But whoever\rquote s doing it has also repeatedly sent data back to the girl, also encoded visually. In other words, the two of them are exchanging encoded information.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Who\rquote s the other party?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2That\rquote s just the thing. I don\rquote t know. Traceback isn\rquote t working, and Wireshark is unable to determine the destination IP address.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab A whole list of techniques one might try ran through Tony\rquote s head\emdash but all of them would have occurred to Shel, too. The younger man went on: \u8220\'d2The intercepted data just disappears, and the data being sent to the girl sort of\~
... }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 materializes}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  out of thin air.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Tony felt his eyebrows go up. He knew better than to say, \u8220\'d2That\rquote s impossible.\u8221\'d3 The Internet was a complex system of systems, with many emergent properties and unexpected quirks\emdash 
not to mention all sorts of entities trying to do things clandestinely with it. If there were data being manipulated on the Web in a way Shelton Halleck couldn\rquote t fathom, that was of real concern.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2The kid is how old?\u8221\'d3 Tony asked.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Just about to turn sixteen.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab He spread his arms. \u8220\'d2What strategic significance could there be in things a sixteen-year-old looks at? Stuff at the mall, rock videos?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Shel lifted his serpent-covered arm. \u8220\'d2That\rquote s what I thought, too. So I nosed around. Turns out her father is a physicist.\u8221\'d3 He brought up a Wikipedia page; the typically god-awful Wikipedia photo showed a horse-
faced white man in his mid-forties.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Malcolm Decter,\u8221\'d3 said Tony, impressed. \u8220\'d2Quantum gravity, right? He\rquote s at the University of Texas, isn\rquote t he?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Not anymore,\u8221\'d3 said Shel. \u8220\'d2He moved in June to the Perimeter Institute.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Tony blew out air. People like himself and Malcolm Decter\emdash the mathematically gifted\emdash 
had three career options. They could go into academia, as Decter had, and while away their days pondering cosmology or number theory or whatever. They could go into the private sector, and become cube monkey
s coding games at EA or hacking together cutesy user interfaces at Microsoft. Or they could go into intelligence, and try to change the world.
\par \tab Tony looked briefly at the analysts hunched over their consoles, faces intent on glowing screens, reflections of
 the data visible in the eyeglasses most of them wore. What the hell difference did it make whether brane theory or loop quantum gravity was right or wrong if terrorists or a foreign power started something that ended with the world blowing itself up?

\par \tab But\emdash the Perimeter Institute! Yes, yes, there was a part of Tony that envied those who had taken that path and had ended up there: the world\rquote 
s leading pure-science physics think tank. WATCH had tried to lure Stephen Hawking to come work for them. They\rquote d failed, but Perimeter had succeeded; Hawking spent several months each year at PI.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Decter\rquote s just a theoretician,\u8221\'d3 Tony said, dismissively.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Maybe so,\u8221\'d3 replied Shel. \u8220\'d2But }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 this}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  is who he works with.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab A picture of a brown-skinned man with straight gray hair appeared, along with a bio compiled by the NSA. \u8220\'d2That\rquote s Amir Hameed,\u8221\'d3 continued Shel. \u8220\'d2Also a physicist, also at Perimeter\emdash 
now. But he used to be with Pakistan\rquote s nuclear-weapons program. And he personally recruited Decter to come work with him in Canada.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2You think Decter\rquote s daughter is spying on what they\rquote re doing in case it has military applications?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It\rquote s possible,\u8221\'d3 Shel drawled. \u8220\'d2Until her family moved to Canada, she\rquote d been in the same school her whole life\emdash a school for the blind in Texas.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Uprooted,\u8221\'d3 said Tony, nodding. \u8220\'d2Isolated from her friends.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2And a bit of an outcast to begin with,\u8221\'d3 added Shel. \u8220\'d2A math geek herself, apparently; didn\rquote t really fit in.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Kind of person that\rquote s easily compromised.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2My thought exactly,\u8221\'d3 said Shel.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2All right,\u8221\'d3 Tony replied. \u8220\'d2Let\rquote s get that visual data decoded; see what the kid is sharing with whoever the hell it is. I\rquote ll put Donnelly himself on it.\u8221\'d3\page 
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\par \tab The world I\rquote d been shown was vast, complex\emdash and utterly alien.
\par \tab It was a universe of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 dimensions,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 extent,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  of }
{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 space.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  But what was this concept known as }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 up}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 to me? What meant this }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 forward?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  What sense was I to make of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 left?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710 
\par \tab More: it was a reality ruled by the invisible force of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 gravity.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab More still: it was a realm of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 light}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  and }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 shadow,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 concepts that had no analogs in my own existence; my sensorium was as devoid of them as Caitlin\rquote s had been.
\par \tab And it was a domain of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 air}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \emdash but how was I to understand a substance that even humans could not see or taste or smell?
\par \tab Most of all it was a realm of material objects with }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 heft}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  and }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 texture}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  and }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 color,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  of items that moved or could be moved.
\par \tab I could assign arbitrary values to dimensional coordinates; I knew the formula for acceleration due to gravity; I was aware of the chemical constituents of air; I had read descriptions both technical and poetic of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\i\insrsid13851710 things.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  But they were all abstractions to me.
\par \tab Still, there was one touchstone, one property that Caitlin\rquote s realm and mine shared: the linear passage of time.
\par \tab And so very much of it was slipping by\~...
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 #
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab Caitlin Decter\rquote s fingers
 shook as she typed into her instant-messenger program: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Where do we go from here, Webmind?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab The reply was immediate: \u8220\'d2The only place we can go, Caitlin.\u8221\'d3 Her spine tingled as it called her by name. She heard the words in the mechanical female voice of her 
screen-reading software, and she saw them with her left eye, an eye that could now see after a lifetime of blindness, and she felt them as she glided her fingers over her refreshable Braille display: \u8220\'d2Into the future.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab And then, after a pause that was doubtless an affectation on Webmind\rquote s part, it sent one more word: \u8220\'d2Together.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Her vision blurred. Who\rquote d known tears could cause that?
\par \tab She had }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 done}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  it. Here, a day shy of her own sixteenth birthday, she had done it! She had reached down into the darkness an
d had pulled this entity, this newborn consciousness, up into the light of day. Annie Sullivan had nothing on her!
\par \tab But now she had to figure out what to do next. Her parents knew }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 something}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  was going on in the background of the Web, and so did Dr. Kuroda, 
the gentle giant of an information theorist who had given her sight.
\par \tab The ball was in her court, she knew; she needed to type a reply. But it was }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 so}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 daunting. This notion of connecting an emergent intelligence with the real world had been a fantasy, for Pete\rquote s sake! And now it was here, talking to her!
\par \tab The front door opened downstairs. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 \u8220\'d2Cait-lin!\u8221\'d3}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 It was her mother, home from running errands in Toronto after dropping Dr. Kuroda at the airport.
\par \tab Caitlin didn\rquote t want to be interrupted\emdash not now! But she could hardly tell her mother to buzz off. \u8220\'d2Up here, Mom!\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Normally she\rquote d type \u8220\'d2brb,\u8221\'d3 but she wasn\rquote t sure if Webmind would understand, so she instead spelled out \u8220\'d2be right back,\u8221\'d3 hit enter, silenced her screen-reading software, and minimized the IM window.

\par \tab Her mother came into the room\emdash and seeing her still took Caitlin\rquote s breath away. Caitlin\rquote s first visual experience had been late on Saturday, September 22, thirteen days ago. But it hadn\rquote t been }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 sight,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  not exactly. Instead, she\rquote d been immersed in a dizzying landscape of colored lines radiating from circular hubs.
\par \tab It had taken her a while to figure it out, but the conclusion had been inescapable. Whenever she let her eyePod\emdash the external signal-processing pack Dr. Kuroda had given her\emdash receive data over the Web, that
 data was fed into her left optic nerve, and\emdash 
\par \tab It was }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 incredible.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  The circles she saw were websites and the lines were active links. She\rquote 
d been blind since birth, and her brain had apparently co-opted its unused vision center to help her conceptualize paths as she surfed the Web\emdash not that she\rquote d ever }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 seen}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  them, not like that!
\par \tab But now she }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 could,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  whenever she wanted to: she could actually see the Web\rquote s structure. They\rquote d ended up calling the phenomenon \u8220
\'d2websight.\u8221\'d3 Cool in its own right, but also heartbreaking: she\rquote d undergone Kuroda\rquote s procedure not to see cyberspace but rather the real world.
\par \tab Finally, though\emdash wonderfully, astonishingly, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 beautifully}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \emdash 
that, too, had come. One day during chemistry class, her brain started correctly interpreting the data Kuroda\rquote s equipment was sending to her optic nerve, and at last, at long, long, glorious last, she could }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\i\insrsid13851710 see!}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab And although she\rquote d experienced much now\emdash the sun and clouds and trees and cars and her cat and a million other things\emdash the most beautiful sight so far was still
 the heart-shaped face of her mother, the face that was smiling at her right now.
\par \tab Today, a Friday, had been Caitlin\rquote s first day back at school after gaining sight. \u8220\'d2How was it?\u8221\'d3 her mother asked. There was only one chair in the bedroom, so she sat on the edge of the bed. \u8220\'d2What did you see?\u8221
\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It was }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 awesome,\u8221\'d3}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  Caitlin said. \u8220\'d2I thought I\rquote d had a handle on what was going on around me before, but\~...\u8221
\'d3 She lifted her hands. \u8220\'d2But there\rquote s }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 so much.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  I mean, to actually see hundreds of people in the corridors, in the cafeteria\emdash 
it was overwhelming.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Her mother made an odd expression\emdash or, at least, one that Caitlin had never seen before, a quirking of the corners of her mouth, and\emdash ah! She was trying not to grin. \u8220\'d2Did people look like you expected them to?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Even after all these years, her mom still didn\rquote t really get it. It wasn\rquote t as though Caitlin had had dim, or blurry, or black-and-white, or simplified mental pictures of people prior to this; she\rquote d had }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 no}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  pictures of them. Color had meant nothing to her, and although she\rquote d understood shapes and lines and angles, she hadn\rquote t }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\i\insrsid13851710 seen}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  them in her mind\rquote s eye; her mind had }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 had}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  no eye.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Well,\u8221\'d3 said Caitlin, not exactly answering the question, \u8220\'d2I\rquote d already seen Bashira and Sunshine and Mr. Struys on Monday.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Sunshine\emdash she\rquote s the other American girl, right?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Yes,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I\rquote ve heard Bashira say she\rquote s beautiful.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab What Bashira had actually said was that Sunshine looked like a skank: fake platinum-blond hair, low-cut tops, big boobs, long legs. But Sunshine had been very kind to Caitlin after the disastrous school dance a week ago. \u8220\'d2I guess she }{
\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 is}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  pretty,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said. \u8220\'d2I really don\rquote t know.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Did you see Trevor?\u8221\'d3 her mother asked gently. The Hoser, as Caitlin called him in her blog, had taken her to that dance\emdash but she had stormed out when he kept trying to feel her up.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Oh, yes,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said. \u8220\'d2I told him off.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Good for you!\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin looked out the window. The sun would be setting soon, and\emdash it still amazed her\emdash the colors in the western sky today were completely different from those of yesterday at this time. \u8220\'d2Mom, um\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Yes?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She turned back to face her. \u8220\'d2You met him. You saw him when he came to pick me up.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Her mother shifted on the bed. \u8220\'d2Uh-huh.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Was\emdash was he\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2What?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Bashira thinks Trevor is hot,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin blurted out.
\par \tab Her mother\rquote s eyebrows went up. \u8220\'d2And you\rquote re wondering if I agree?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin tilted her head to one side. \u8220\'d2Well\~... yeah.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2What did }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 you}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  think?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Well, he was wearing a hockey sweater today. I liked that. But\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2But you couldn\rquote t tell if he was good looking?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2No.\u8221\'d3 Caitlin shrugged a little. \u8220\'d2I mean, he was }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 symmetrical.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  I know that\rquote 
s supposed to be a sign of good looks. But just about everyone I\rquote ve seen is symmetrical. He, um, I\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Her mother lifted her hands a little, then: \u8220\'d2Well, he }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 is}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  quite good looking, since you ask\emdash a bit like a young Brad Pitt.\u8221\'d3
 And then she added the sort of thing mothers are supposed to say: \u8220\'d2But it\rquote s what\rquote s on the inside that counts.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She paused and seemed to study Caitlin\rquote s face, as if she herself were now seeing it for the first time. \u8220\'d2You know, you\rquote 
re in an interesting position, dear. The rest of us have all been programmed by images in the media telling us who is attractive and who isn\rquote t. But you\~...\u8221\'d3 She smiled. \u8220\'d2You get to }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\i\insrsid13851710 choose}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  who you find attractive.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin thought about that. As superpowers went, it was nowhere near as cool as being able to fly or bend steel bars, but it was something, she supposed. She managed a smile.
\par \tab They talked a while longer about what had happened at school. Her mom looked over Caitlin\rquote s shoulder, and Caitlin was afraid she\rquote d seen evidence of Webmind\rquote s existence on one of her monitors\emdash 
but apparently she was just looking at the setting sun herself. \u8220\'d2Your father will be home soon. I\rquote m going to throw something together for dinner.\u8221\'d3 She headed downstairs.
\par \tab Caitlin quickly turned back to her instant-messenger program. She had two computers in her room now; the IM program was running on the one that had been in the basement while Dr. Kuroda was here. She\rquote d left Webmind alone for fi
fteen minutes while talking with her mother, which, she imagined, must have been an eternity to it. The last thing it had said to her was, \u8220\'d2The only place we can go, Caitlin. Into the future. Together.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab But\emdash fifteen minutes! A quarter of an hour, on top of the delay she\rquote d already made in responding. In that time, it could have absorbed thousands of additional documents, have learned more than she would in an entire year.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Back,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  she typed into the IM window.
\par \tab The reply was instantaneous: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Salutations.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Caitlin left the speakers off and used her Braille display to read the text while simultaneously looking at it in the chat window. She was struggling to read visually; she\rquote 
d played with wooden cutouts of letters as a kid, but to actually recognize by sight a }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 B}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  or an }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 H}{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  or a }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 g}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  or that blerking }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 q}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  that she was always mixing up with }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 p}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  was a pain in the ass.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 What did you do while I was away?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  she asked.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 You weren\rquote t away,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  Webmind replied. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 
You rotated widdershins in your chair and faced another personage.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab She\rquote d gotten Webmind to read all the public-domain texts on Project Gutenberg; as a result, it tended to use old-fashioned words. She was pleased with herself for knowing that }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 widdershins}{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  meant counterclockwise.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 That was my mother,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  she typed. She heard the front door 
opening again, and the heavy footfalls of her father entering, and her mother going to greet him.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 So I had assumed,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  replied Webmind. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 
I am desirous of seeing more of your world. I believe your current location is Waterloo, Canada, but hitherto all I have s
een is what I surmise to be your home, your school, a multi-merchant shopping establishment, and points betwixt. I have read your LiveJournal entries about your recent travel to Tokyo, Japan, and that you previously resided in Austin, United States. Will 
you soon be going to either locale again?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Caitlin lifted her eyebrows. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 No,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  she typed. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 I have to stay here and go to school. I\rquote 
ve already missed too many days of classes.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Oh,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  wrote Webmind. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Then I must investigate alternatives.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Caitlin felt her heart sink. Webmind was\emdash 
\par \tab No, no. She knew she was being childish. She was about to turn sixteen; she shouldn\rquote t be thinking like this!
\par \tab But\emdash 
\par \tab But Webmind was }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 hers.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  She had found it\emdash and, more than that, she was the only one who could actually see it. When looking at 
webspace, she could just make out little dots or squares in the background winking between dark and light. Based on her descriptions of the patterns they made, Dr. Kuroda had said they were cellular automata. And it was their complexity that had grown rap
idly over this past week; they were almost certainly what had given rise to this new consciousness.
\par \tab She took a deep breath, then typed, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 What alternatives do you have in mind?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 I am vexed,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  came the reply. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 A meet solution does not occur instanter. But I will
 be stymied by your circadian rhythms; you surely will need to sleep soon. I am given to understand that the time will pass quickly for thee, but it shan\rquote t for me.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Caitlin frowned. It\rquote d be many hours still before she went to bed, but, yes, she would have to eventually. She didn\rquote t know what to do. She was scared to tell her parents. But she was also scared }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\i\insrsid13851710 not}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  to. This was freaking }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 huge,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  and\emdash 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 \u8220\'d2Cait-lin!\u8221\'d3}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  Her mother from downstairs.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Yes?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 \u8220\'d2Come set the table!\u8221\'d3 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab It was one of the few chores she\rquote d been able to do when she was blind, and she\rquote 
d always enjoyed it; her mental map of their dining-room table was perfect, and she deployed the cutlery and dishes precisely. But it was the last thing she wanted to be doing right now. \u8220\'d2In a minute!\u8221\'d3
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 \u8220\'d2Now, young lady!\u8221\'d3 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Out of habit she typed the initials }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 brb.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  Once she realized what she\rquote d done, she thought again about spelling it out, but didn\rquote t; it
\rquote d give Webmind something to think about while she was away.
\par \tab She forced herself to keep her eyes open as she went down the stairs, even though the view gave her vertigo. Her mother was in the living room, reading\emdash 
apparently whatever was in the oven for dinner (something Italian, judging by the smell) didn\rquote t require her constant attention. Caitlin hadn\rquote t previously been awa
re of how much time her mother spent with her nose buried in a book. She rather liked that she did that.
\par \tab She knew her father was down the hall in his den because Supertramp\rquote s \u8220\'d2Bloody Well Right\u8221\'d3 was playing\emdash and, eco-nut that he was, he always turned off the stereo when he left the room.
\par \tab She headed into the kitchen, and\emdash 
\par \tab And, as with everything, it still startled her to }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 see}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  it. Granted, it was the }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 new}{\rtlch\fcs1 
\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  kitchen, and it had taken her a while to learn its layout. She had no doubt she knew its dimensions now better than her parents did, but\emdash 
\par \tab But until recently, she\rquote d never known it had pale green walls, or that the floor tiles were brown, or that there were tubular lights in the ceiling behind some kind of translucent sheeting, or that there was a window in th
e oven door (it had never even occurred to her that people would want such a thing), or that there was a painting of\~... of mountains, maybe\~... on the wall, or that there was a big\emdash well, something!\emdash 
stored on top of the fridge. Webspace was so simple compared to the real world!
\par \tab She looked at the stove, at the boxy blue digits glowing on its control panel. It wasn\rquote t a clock, though\emdash or if it was, it wasn\rquote t set properly, and\emdash oh, no, wait! It was a }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\i\insrsid13851710 timer,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  counting down. There were still forty-seven or forty-one minutes left\emdash she wasn\rquote t quite sure what that second shape was supposed to represent\emdash 
until whatever it was would emerge from the oven. She took a deep breath: lasagna, maybe. Ah, and on the sideboard in a big red plastic bowl: her mother had thrown together ah, um, ah\~...
\par \tab Well, she\rquote d never have guessed it looked like that! But the garlicky smell was obvious: it was a Caesar salad.
\par \tab God, she could barely decode a kitchen! She was going to need help\emdash lots of it\emdash to properly instruct Webmind about the real world.
\par \tab She got plates and bowls, and headed into the dining room. The laminated place mats depicted covered bridges of New England, but she only knew that because her mother had told her so when she\rquote 
d been blind. Even now, even able to see the pictures, she couldn\rquote t tell what they were depicting; she just didn\rquote t have enough of a visual vocabulary yet.
\par \tab She went back into the kitchen and got cutlery, and\emdash 
\par \tab And looked at herself, looked at her own reflection, in the blade of one of the knives. Who the hell had known that you could see yourself in a knife? Or that you\rquote d see a distorted image of yourself on the back of a spoon? It was all so }{
\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 discombobulating,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  to use a word Webmind might like.
\par \tab She finished setting the table, and\emdash 
\par \tab And she made her decision: she }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 did}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 need help. She went into the living room, but instead of going back upstairs, she headed on down the corridor to get her father. \u8220\'d2Bloody Well Right\u8221\'d3 had given way to Queen\rquote s \u8220\'d2Bohemian Rhapsody.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin\rquote s dad, like many a gifted scientist before him, was autistic. It had been hard for Caitlin growing up with a father she couldn\rquote 
t see, who rarely spoke, who disliked physical contact, and who never said he loved her. Now that she }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 could}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 see him, she understood him a little better but still found him intimidating. \u8220\'d2Dad,\u8221\'d3 she said in a small voice as she stood in his doorway. \u8220\'d2Can I talk to you?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab He looked up from his keyboard but didn\rquote t meet her eyes; that, she knew, was as much acknowledgment as she was going to get. \u8220\'d2Um, in the living room, maybe?\u8221\'d3 she said. \u8220\'d2I want Mom to hear this, too.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab His eyebrows pulled together, and Caitlin realized that he must be thinking she was going to announce that she was pregnant or something. She almost wished it was as }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 normal}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  as that.
\par \tab Caitlin walked back to the living room. The music was cut short at the part about Beelzebub having a devil set aside for her.
\par \tab She gestured for her father to take a chair, copying something she\rquote d seen her mother do. He took a seat on the white couch, and her mother, in the easy chair, put her book facedown, splayed open, on the glass-topped coffee table.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Mom, Dad,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said. \u8220\'d2There\rquote s, um, something I have to tell you\~...\u8221\'d3\page 
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\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 The}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Nanoseconds to formulate the thought.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 only}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Fractionally more time to render it in English.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 place}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab An eternity to pump it out onto the net.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 we}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Packets dispatched one by one.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 can}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Each eventually acknowledged.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 go}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Signals flashing along glass fiber\emdash 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Caitlin}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab \emdash dropping to the glacial speed of copper wire\emdash 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Into}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab \emdash followed by the indolence of Wi-Fi.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 the}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab An interminable wait while she felt bumps with her fingertips.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 future}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab The message finally sent, but only just beginning to be truly received.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Together}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Yes, together: Caitlin and I.
\par \tab My view of the world: through Caitlin\rquote s eye.
\par \tab I waited for her reply.
\par \tab And waited.
\par \tab And waited.
\par \tab And\emdash and\emdash and\emdash 
\par \tab My mind wandered.
\par \tab She\rquote d shown me Earth from space, the view from a geosynchronous satellite, 36,000 kilometers above the equator. I\rquote d seen it as she looked at it: not directly, not the graphic she was consulting, but her left eye\rquote 
s view of that graphic as displayed on the larger of her two computer monitors.
\par \tab Such a roundabout way to see! And doubtless a huge reduction of information. I\rquote d read all about computer graphics, about online imagery, about the sixt
een million colors of Super VGA, about the 700,000 pixels shown on even the most pedestrian monitor. But all of that was denied to me.
\par \tab Still waiting. Time passing; whole seconds piling up.
\par \tab Diverting my attention. Looking for something else to occupy my time.
\par \tab I searched. I found. Texts describing Earth as seen from space; I could read those. But the linked images were inaccessible to me. Unless }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 she}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 looked at them, I couldn\rquote t see them.
\par \tab More: descriptions of live video streams from satellites orbiting Earth, views from on high of it\emdash of me\emdash in real time, of what\rquote s happening }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 right now}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 . But I wasn\rquote t able to access them.
\par \tab More still: links to the }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Apollo 8}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  photographs of Earth from space, of Earthrise over the moon\rquote s craggy horizon, the actual, original images th
at had changed humanity\rquote s perspective forever. I\rquote d seen modern versions, but I wanted to see those historical photographs.
\par \tab Vexing!
\par \tab Still waiting. Minutes passing\emdash }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 minutes!}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab And even more: text about another eye, an eye turned }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 outward,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  an eye contemplating
 the wide awe and wonder of the night. The Hubble Space Telescope. Vast archives of its imagery were stored in formats I couldn\rquote t access. I was }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 hungry}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710  to see what it had seen. I ached to know more.
\par \tab Waiting. Waiting. Time }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 crawls.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 She}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  saw. My Calculass, my Prime, my Caitlin: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 she}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 saw.
\par \tab But I was still almost completely blind.
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 #
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab Shoshana Glick pulled her red Volvo into the 7-Eleven\rquote 
s parking lot. She didn\rquote t really like driving, and she hadn\rquote t owned a car until she\rquote d moved to San Diego, where everybody drove everywhere. She\rquote d bought this one used. It was a dozen years old and in pretty bad shape.
\par \tab As she walked into the shop, a bit from }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 The Simpsons}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  ran through her mind. Bart holds a fake ponytail to the back of his head, and exclaims, \u8220
\'d2Look at me, I\rquote m a grad student! I\rquote m thirty years old and I made $600 last year.\u8221\'d3 Marge scolds him, \u8220\'d2Bart, don\rquote t make fun of grad students. They just made a terrible life choice.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab And sometimes it felt that way, although at least she wasn\rquote t a }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 guy}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  with a ponytail\emdash and she was only
 twenty-seven. Besides, between what she made and what Max made as a TA, they were }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 almost}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  keeping up with expenses.
\par \tab There must have been a thirty-degree Fahrenheit difference between the hot air outside and the overly air-conditioned interior of the store. She was wearing a blue halter top, and her nipples went hard in the cold. She assumed that\rquote 
s why the gangly-looking guy behind the counter was staring at her; the clerk\rquote s pimply face suggested he was at least a decade her junior.
\par \tab But apparently that wasn\rquote t the reason.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I know you,\u8221\'d3 he said. His voice squeaked a little.
\par \tab Sho raised her eyebrows.
\par \tab The guy nodded. \u8220\'d2You\rquote re the ape lady.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab That was the second time this week\emdash although the last time, at the Barnes & Noble at Hazard Center, she\rquote d been referred to as \u8220\'d2Homo\rquote s favorite subject.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She\rquote d politely corrected the elderly woman in the bookstore. \u8220\'d2That\rquote s Hobo,\u8221\'d3 she\rquote d said. It was an interesting Freudian slip, though, and it surely hadn\rquote 
t been a gay-bashing comment. Hobo did sometimes seem more like he belonged in genus }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Homo}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  rather than }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\i\insrsid13851710 Pan.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Sho looked at the kid behind the 7-Eleven\rquote s counter. \u8220\'d2The ape lady?\u8221\'d3 she repeated coolly.
\par \tab The young man seemed disconcerted, perhaps at last recognizing that what he\rquote d said could have been construed as an insult\emdash although it wasn\rquote 
t to Sho: she admired apes a lot, which was why she was pursuing a career in primate communications.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I mean,\u8221\'d3 he said, \u8220\'d2you\rquote re the woman that ape likes to paint\emdash you know, Bobo.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Hobo,\u8221\'d3 said Shoshana. For God\rquote s sake, it wasn\rquote t that hard a name.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Right, right,\u8221\'d3 said the guy. \u8220\'d2I saw it on the news and on YouTube.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Sho wasn\rquote t quite sure she liked being famous\emdash but, then again, her fifteen minutes would doubtless soon be up.
\par \tab She stopped here often enough\emdash although she\rquote d never seen this kid before\emdash to buy raisins, one of Hobo\rquote s favorite treats. She knew where they were kept and went over to get a box, feeling the boy\rquote 
s eyes on her as she did so.
\par \tab When she went up to the cash, the boy seemed to want to say something to make up for calling her the \u8220\'d2ape lady.\u8221\'d3 \u8220\'d2Well, I can see why he likes to paint you.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Sho decided to take it in stride. \u8220\'d2Thanks,\u8221\'d3 she said, opening her little purse and paying for the raisins.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I mean\emdash \u8221\'d3
\par \tab But anything else he said would be too much; she knew that, even if he didn\rquote t, and so she cut him off. \u8220\'d2Thanks,\u8221\'d3
 she said again. She headed out of the cold store into the harsh late-afternoon sunshine. As she approached her car, she idly wondered if the California vanity plate APELADY was already taken\emdash not that she could afford any such thing.
\par \tab Shoshana drove the additional fifteen minutes to the Marcuse Institute, which was located outside San Diego on a large grassy lot, pulling her car in next to the black Lincoln owned by Harl Marcuse himself. If he\rquote 
d had a vanity plate, it might have read 800\~LBS; he was known around the NSF as the eight-hundred-pound gorilla. Or, she supposed, it could have said SLVRBCK\emdash although she actually rather hoped that he\rquote 
d never overheard either her or Dillon, the other grad student, calling him the Silverback.
\par \tab She entered the Institute\rquote s white clapboard bungalow. Dr. Marcuse was in the little kitchen, fixing himself a snack. \u8220\'d2Good afternoon,\u8221\'d3 Sho said. She didn\rquote t actually know if she was allowed to call him \u8220\'d2Harl,
\u8221\'d3 and yet \u8220\'d2sir\u8221\'d3 seemed too formal. He always called her Shoshana\emdash all three syllables\emdash even though he\rquote d doubtless often heard the others call her just Sho. She tilted her head toward the window. \u8220\'d2
How is he?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2A bit grumpy,\u8221\'d3 said Marcuse, slicing a big hunk off a brick of white cheese. \u8220\'d2He misses you when you\rquote re late coming in.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Sho ignored the barb. \u8220\'d2I\rquote ll go say hi.\u8221\'d3
 She headed out the back door and walked across the wide lawn leading toward the pond. In its middle was a circular dome-shaped island about seventy feet in diameter, with a gazebo at the center. Shoshana crossed the little wooden drawbridge.
\par \tab The island had two occupants. One was made of stone: an eight-foot-tall statue of the Lawgiver, the orangutan Moses from the }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Planet of the Apes}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 movies. The other was flesh and blood. Hobo was sitting in the shade of one of the island\rquote s six palm trees, his chinless jaw propped up by a bent arm; the pose reminded Shoshana of Rodin\rquote s Thinker.
\par \tab But suddenly the pose dissolved into a flurry of long hairy limbs. Hobo caught sight of Sho and came bounding on all fours toward her. When he\rquote 
d closed the distance, he gathered her into a hug and, as always, gave a playful tug on her ponytail.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Where been?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  he demanded, as soon as his hands were free. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Where been?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Sorry!}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  Shoshana signed back. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 At university today.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Fun?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  asked Hobo.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Not as much fun as being here,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  she said, and she reached out and tickled him on either side of his flat belly.
\par \tab Hobo hooted with joy, and Shoshana laughed and squirmed away as he tried to even the tickling score.
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 #
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab Caitlin knew nothing yet about telling people\rquote 
s ages by their appearance. Her mother was forty-seven, but she couldn\rquote t say if she }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 looked it}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  or not, although Bashira said she didn\rquote 
t. Her hair was brown, and her eyes were large and blue, and she had an upturned nose.
\par \tab Her father was two years younger than her mother, and quite a bit taller than either of them. He had brown eyes, like Caitlin, and hair that was a mixture of dark brown and gray.
\par \tab Her mother was looking at Caitlin; her father was staring off in another direction. \u8220\'d2Yes, dear?\u8221\'d3 her mom said, concerned, in response to Caitlin having announced that she had something to tell them.
\par \tab But, Caitlin discovered, it was not the sort of thing that came trippingly to the tongue. \u8220\'d2Um, Dad, you remember those cellular automata Dr. Kuroda and I found in the background of the World Wide Web?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab He nodded.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2And, well, remember the Zipf plots we did on the patterns they made?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab He nodded again. Zipf plots showed whether a signal contained information.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2And, later, remember, you calculated their Shannon entropy?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Yet another nod. Shannon entropy showed how complex information was\emdash and, when her dad had done his calculations, the answer had been: not very complex at all. Whatever was in the background of the Web hadn\rquote t been sophisticated.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Wellll,\u8221\'d3 said Caitlin, \u8220\'d2I did my own Shannon analyses\~... over and over again. And, um, as time went by, the score kept getting higher: third-order, fourth-order.\u8221\'d3 She paused. \u8220\'d2Then eighth and ninth.
\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Then it }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 was}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  secret messages!\u8221\'d3 said her father. Englis
h, and most other languages, showed eighth- or ninth-order Shannon entropy. And that had indeed been their fear: that they\rquote d stumbled onto an operation by the NSA, or some other spy organization, running in the background of the Web.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2No,\u8221\'d3 said Caitlin. \u8220\'d2The score kept getting higher and higher. I saw it reach 16.4.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2You must have been\emdash \u8221\'d3 But he stopped himself; he knew better than to say \u8220\'d2\emdash doing the math wrong.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin shook her head. \u8220\'d2It isn\rquote t secret messages.\u8221\'d3 She paused, recalling that Webmind\rquote s first words to her were, in fact, \u8220\'d2Seekrit message to Calculass,\u8221\'d3
 imitating a phrase Caitlin herself often used online.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Then what is it?\u8221\'d3 her mother asked.
\par \tab Caitlin took a deep breath, blew it out, then: \u8220\'d2It\rquote s a\~... }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 consciousness.\u8221\'d3 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab \u8220\'d2A what?\u8221\'d3 her mom said.
\par \tab Caitlin spread her arms. \u8220\'d2It\rquote s a consciousness, an intelligence, that\rquote s emerged spontaneously, somehow, in the infrastructure of the Web.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin still had to parse facial expressions piece by piece, and then match the clues to descriptions she\rquote d read in books. Her father\rquote s eyes narrowed into a squint, and he pressed his lips tightly together: skepticism.
\par \tab Her mother\rquote s tone was gentle. \u8220\'d2That\rquote s an\~... interesting idea, dear, but\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Its name,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said firmly, \u8220\'d2is Webmind.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab And }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 that}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  look on her mother\rquote s face\emdash mouth opened and rounded, eyes wide\emdash had to be surprise. \u8220\'d2You\rquote ve }{
\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 spoken}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  with it?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin nodded. \u8220\'d2Via instant messenger.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Sweetheart,\u8221\'d3 her mother said, \u8220\'d2there are lots of con artists on the Web.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2No, Mom. For Pete\rquote s sake, this is }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 real.\u8221\'d3 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Has he asked you to meet him?\u8221\'d3 her mother demanded. \u8220\'d2Asked for photographs?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2No! Mom, I know all about online predators. It\rquote s nothing like that.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Have you given him any personal information?\u8221\'d3 her mother continued. \u8220\'d2Bank account numbers? Your Social Security number? Anything like that?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Mom!\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Her mother looked at her father, as if resuming some old argument. \u8220\'d2I }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 told}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  you something like this would happen,\u8221\'d3 she said. \u8220
\'d2A blind girl spending all that time unsupervised online.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin\rquote s voice was suddenly sharp. \u8220\'d2I\rquote m }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 not}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 blind anymore! And, even when I was, I was always careful. This is as real as anything.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2You didn\rquote t answer your mother\rquote s question,\u8221\'d3 her dad said. \u8220\'d2Have you given out any personal numbers or passwords?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Jesus, Dad, no. This isn\rquote t a scam.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2That\rquote s what }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 everyone}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  who is being scammed says,\u8221\'d3 he replied.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Look, come up to my room,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said. \u8220\'d2I\rquote ll }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 show}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  you.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She didn\rquote t wait for an answer; she just turned and headed for the staircase. Her breathing was ragged, but she knew she wasn\rquote t 
going to accomplish anything by being pissy. She took a deep breath, and a memory of an animated cartoon came to her. She hadn\rquote t }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 seen}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 it yet, but she\rquote d always enjoyed listening to it, after Stacy back in Austin had explained what was going on. It was a Looney Tunes short called \u8220\'d2One Froggy Evening,\u8221\'d3 about a frog who sang and danced for the guy who\rquote 
d found it, but just croaked when anyone else was around. Eyes closed, steps passing beneath her feet, the frog\rquote s favorite song ran through her head:
\par 
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\f1\fs22\lang1033\langfe1033\kerning16\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Hello! ma baby}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Hello! ma honey}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Hello! ma ragtime gal}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Send me a kiss by wire}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Baby, ma heart\rquote s on fire!}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par 
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\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab Her parents followed her. Caitlin sat down in the swivel chair in front of her desk. She had an old seventeen-inch monitor hooked up to one computer, and the new twenty-seven-inch widescreen monitor she
\rquote d received that morning as an early birthday present connected to her other computer. Her mother took up a position on her left, arms crossed in front of her chest, and her father stood on her right. The chat session
 with Webmind was still on screen, with her }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 brb}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  as the last post. Things she said were in red letters, and Webmind\rquote s words were in blue.
\par \tab She couldn\rquote t see her father\emdash she was still blind in her right eye\emdash but in her left-side peripheral vision, she saw her mother shoot him another look.
\par \tab She typed, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Back.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab There was no response. The IM window\emdash a white rectangle parked in a corner of her big monitor\emdash showed nothing except an animated ad at its top. She shifted in her chair. Of course, Webmind knew she wasn\rquote t alon
e. It watched the datafeed from her eyePod, and certainly could see her mother.
\par \tab She tried again, typing }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Hello.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Still nothing. She turned to look at her father\emdash and realized that might have been a mistake, since Webmind could now see that he was there, too
. She faced the screen again and drummed her fingers on the stonewashed denim stretched across her thigh. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Come on,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  she thought. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Send me a kiss by wire\~...}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab And after six more seconds, the blue letters \u8220\'d2POS\u8221\'d3 appeared in the instant-messenger window.
\par \tab A startled laugh burst from Caitlin.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2What\rquote s that mean?\u8221\'d3 demanded her mother.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2\lquote Parents over shoulder,\rquote \u8221\'d3 Caitlin said. \u8220\'d2It\rquote s what you write in an IM when you can\rquote t talk freely.\u8221\'d3 She typed: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Yes, they are, and I
\rquote d like you to meet them.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  She looked at her father, so Webmind could see him, and she sent, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 That\rquote s my dad, Dr. Malcolm Decter.}{\rtlch\fcs1 
\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  And she looked the other way, then added, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 And my mom, Dr. Barbara Decter.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Webmind might have wrestled mightily with what to do next\emdash but its response appeared instantaneously. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Greetings and felicitations.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Caitlin smiled. \u8220\'d2It\rquote s read all of Project Gutenberg,\u8221\'d3 she said. \u8220\'d2Its language tends to be dated.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Sweetheart,\u8221\'d3 her mother said gently, \u8220\'d2that could be anyone.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It\rquote s read all of Wikipedia, too,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said. \u8220\'d2Ask it something that no human being could find quickly online.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2The Wikipedia entry on any topic is usually the first Google hit,\u8221\'d3 her mom said. \u8220\'d2If this guy\rquote s got a fast enough connection, he could find anything quickly.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Ask it a question, Dad. Something technical.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab He seemed to hesitate, as if wondering whether to go along with this nonsense or not. Finally, he said, \u8220\'d2Are heterotic strings open or closed?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin started to type. \u8220\'d2How do you spell that?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2H-e-t-e-r-o-t-i-c.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She finished typing the question, but didn\rquote t press enter. \u8220\'d2Now, watch how fast it answers\emdash it won\rquote t be searching, it\rquote ll }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 know}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710  it.\u8221\'d3 She sent the question, and the word }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 closed}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  appeared at once.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Fifty-fifty shot,\u8221\'d3 said her mother.
\par \tab Caitlin was getting pissed again. There had to be an easy way to prove what she was saying.
\par \tab And there was!
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Okay, look, Mom\emdash my webcam is off, see?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Her mother nodded.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Okay, now hold up some fingers\emdash any number.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Her mom looked surprised, then did what she was asked. Caitlin glanced at her, then typed, \u8220\'d2How many fingers is my mom holding up?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab The numeral three appeared instantly.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Which ones?\u8221\'d3 typed Caitlin.
\par \tab The text \u8220\'d2Index, middle, ring\u8221\'d3 popped into the window.
\par \tab Her mother made that round-mouth-look again. Caitlin had Webmind repeat the stunt three times, and it got the answers right, even when she made the devil\rquote s horns gesture with her index and baby fingers.
\par \tab Caitlin\rquote s mother sat down on the edge of the bed, and her father crossed the room and leaned against one of the blank walls, which, she had learned, were a color called cornflower blue.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Sweetheart,\u8221\'d3 her mother said, gently. \u8220\'d2Okay, somebody is intercepting the signal your eyePod is putting out. I grant you that, but\emdash \u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2The eyePod signal is just my retinal datastream,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said. \u8220\'d2Even if someone }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 was}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  intercepting it, they wouldn\rquote 
t be able to decode it.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2If it\rquote s somebody at the University of Tokyo, they might have access to Masayuki\rquote s algorithms,\u8221\'d3 her mother said. \u8220\'d2There are con artists }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 everywhere.}{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  And honey, this is }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 exactly}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  how a certain type of Internet crook works. They find people who are\~
... misunderstood. People who are brilliant, but don\rquote t fit in well in the regular nine-to-five world.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Mom, it\rquote s }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 real}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \emdash really.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Her mother shook her head. \u8220\'d2I know it }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 seems}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  real. The standard ploy is to come on to such a person in email or a chat room saying they
\rquote ve noticed how clever and insightful they are, how they\emdash forgive me\emdash how they see things that others don\rquote t. One version has the scammer pretending to be a recruiter for the CIA; I have a friend who had her b
ank account cleared out after she gave up information supposedly for a security check. It\rquote s exactly what these people do: they try to make you feel like you\rquote re special\emdash like you\rquote 
re the most special person on the planet. And then they take you for everything you\rquote ve got.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Well, first, my bank account has, like, two hundred dollars in it, so who cares? And, second, Jesus, Mom, this is }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 real.\u8221\'d3 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab \u8220\'d2That\rquote s why it works,\u8221\'d3 her mother said. \u8220\'d2Because it }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 seems}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  real.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2For God\rquote s sake,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said. She swiveled in her chair. \u8220\'d2Dad?\u8221\'d3 she said imploringly. Yes, he was hard to deal with; yes, he was a cold fish. But, as she\rquote 
d once overheard a university student say about why he\rquote d taken one of his courses, he }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 was}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 Malcolm Fucking Decter: he was a genius. He surely knew how to definitively test a hypothesis, no matter how outlandish it might seem. \u8220\'d2You\rquote re a scientist,\u8221\'d3 she said. \u8220\'d2Prove one of us wrong.\u8221\'d3
 She got out of her chair and motioned for him to sit down in front of the keyboard.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2All right,\u8221\'d3 he said. \u8220\'d2Are you logging your IM sessions?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I always do,\u8221\'d3 said Caitlin.
\par \tab He nodded. He clearly realized that if Caitlin was right, the record of the initial contact with Webmind would be of enormous scientific value.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Do not watch me type,\u8221\'d3 he said, taking the seat. At first she thought he was being his normal autistic self\emdash since acquiring sight, she\rquote d had to train herself }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 not}{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  to look at him\emdash but he went on: \u8220\'d2Stare at the wall while I do this.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She sat down on the bed next to her mother and did as he\rquote d asked.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Where\rquote s Word?\u8221\'d3 he said.
\par \tab Silly man was probably looking for a desktop icon, but Caitlin hadn\rquote t needed them when she was blind, and a Windows wizard had cleared most of them away ages ago. \u8220\'d2It\rquote s the third choice down on the Start menu.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She heard keyclicks, and lots of backspacing\emdash her backspace key made a slightly different sound than the smaller, alphabetic ones.
\par \tab He worked for almost fifteen minutes. Caitlin was dying to ask what he was up to, but she kept staring at the deep blue wall on the far side of the room. For her part, her mother also sat quietly.
\par \tab Finally, he said, \u8220\'d2All right. Let\rquote s see what it\rquote s made of.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin had audible accessibility aids installed on her computer, including a }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 bleep}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  sound effect when text was cut, and a }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 bloop}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  when it was pasted. She heard both sounds as her dad presumably transferred whatever he\rquote d written from Word into the IM window.
\par \tab She fidgeted nervously. He sucked in his breath.
\par \tab Another cut-and-paste combo. He made a }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 \u8220\'d2hmmm\u8221\'d3}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  sound.
\par \tab Yet another transfer, this time followed by silence, which lasted for seven seconds, and then he did one more cut and paste, and then\emdash 
\par \tab And then her father spoke. \u8220\'d2Barb,\u8221\'d3 he said, \u8220\'d2care to say hello to Webmind?\u8221\'d3\page 
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\par \tab Something else that was without analog in my universe: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 parents,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  relatives, shared DNA. Caitlin had half of her mother\rquote 
s DNA, and a quarter of her mother\rquote s mother\rquote s, and an eighth of her mother\rquote s mother\rquote s mother\rquote s, and so on. Degrees of interrelatedness: again, utterly alien to me, and yet so important to them.
\par \tab The Chinese government had 
temporarily cut off Internet access to that country. It was an attempt to prevent its people from hearing foreign perspectives on the decision to eliminate 10,000 peasants in order to contain an outbreak of bird flu. And while the Internet was severed, th
ere had been }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 me}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  and }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 not me,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 a binary dichotomy with no overlap. But Caitlin was half her mother, and half her father, too, and also uniquely her own\emdash and, yet, despite those ratios, she had more than 99% of her DNA in common with them and every other human being\emdash 
and 98.5% in common with chimpanzees and bonobos, and at least 70% in common with every other vertebrate, and 50% in common with each photosynthesizing plant.
\par \tab And yet that first trivial set of relatedness fractions\emdash halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths\emdash had driven evolution, had shaped history.
\par \tab Kuroda and Caitlin had surmised that my mind was composed of cellular automata\emdash individual bits of information that responded in some predictable way to the states of their neighboring bits of information as arr
ayed on a grid. What rule or rules were being obeyed\emdash what formula gave rise to my consciousness\emdash we didn\rquote 
t yet know, but it was perhaps no more complex than the rules that governed human behavior: if that person there shares one-eighth of your genes, but fi
ve people over here each share a thirty-second, you instinctively strive to advantage the group over the individual.
\par \tab That was another touchstone: whether in Caitlin\rquote s realm of things and flesh, or mine of packets and protocols, the cold equations ruled supreme.
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 #
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab \u8220\'d2Wait!\u8221\'d3
 said Caitlin, still seated on the edge of the bed. \u8220\'d2How\rquote d you do that? What convinced you that it\rquote s }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 not}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  human?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Her father pointed at the larger of the two computer screens, and she came over to stand in front of it. He scrolled the IM window back so she could see the first of the four exchanges he\rquote d just had with Webmind. But she }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 couldn\rquote t}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  read the first one. Not because the text was small or in an odd font, though. She went through it, character by character, trying, really trying, to ma
ke sense of it, but\emdash 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Y-o-u}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \~... yes, that was easy. But it was followed by }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 m-s-u-t}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710  which wasn\rquote t even a word, for crying out loud, and then it was }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 r-s-e-p,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  and more.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I can\rquote t read it,\u8221\'d3 she said in frustration.
\par \tab Her dad actually smiled. \u8220\'d2Neither could Webmind.\u8221\'d3 He pointed at the screen. \u8220\'d2Barb?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She loomed in to look at it, and read aloud at a perfectly normal speed, \u8220\'d2\lquote You must respond in four seconds or I will forever terminate contact. You have no alternative and this is the only chance you will get. What 
is the last name of the president of the United States?\rquote \u8221\'d3 And then she added, sounding more like her daughter than herself: \u8220\'d2Hey, that\rquote s cool!\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin stared at the screen again, trying to see what her mother was seeing, but\emdash oh! \u8220\'d2And you can read that without difficulty?\u8221\'d3 she said, looking at her mom.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Well, without }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 much}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  difficulty,\u8221\'d3 her mother replied.
\par \tab The screen showed:
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\f1\fs22\lang1033\langfe1033\kerning16\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 You msut rsepnod in fuor secdons or I wlil feroevr temrainte cnotcat. You hvae no atrleantvie and tihs is the olny chnace you shlal 
get. Waht is the lsat nmae of the psredinet of the Utneid Satets?
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\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab \u8220\'d2I think we can safely conclude that your mother is not a fembot,\u8221\'d3 her dad said dryly. \u8220\'d2But Webmind couldn\rquote t read it.\u8221\'d3 He pointed at its reply, which was }{
\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 I beg your pardon?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Both you and Webmind are processing text one character at a time instead of taking in whole words,\u8221\'d3 he said. \u8220\'d2For most people, if the first and last letters are correct, the order of the remaining letters doesn\rquote 
t matter. And, they mostly don\rquote t even see that there }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 are}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  errors\emdash that\rquote s why my second question was important.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin looked. Her dad had asked, \u8220\'d2How many non-English words were in my previous posting?\u8221\'d3 And Webmind had replied, immediately according to the time stamp: \u8220\'d2Twenty.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2That\rquote s the right number, but most people\emdash most real human beings\emdash spot only half the errors in a passage like that. But this thing answered instantaneously\emdash 
the moment I pressed enter. No time to bring up a spell-checker or for a human to even try to count the number of errors.\u8221\'d3 He paused. \u8220\'d2
Next, I tested your claim that it had a very high Shannon-entropy score. No human being could parse the recursiveness of this without careful diagraming.\u8221\'d3 He scrolled the IM window so she could see what he\rquote d sent:
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\f1\fs22\lang1033\langfe1033\kerning16\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 I knew that she knew that you knew that they knew that you knew that I knew that we knew that I knew that.
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\par Did she know that you knew that I knew that you knew that I knew that you knew that?
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\par Did you know that I knew that they knew that she knew?
\par 
\par Did I know that she knew that you knew that we knew that you knew?
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\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab To which Webmind had instantly replied: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Yes. No. Yes.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab \u8220\'d2And those are the right answers?\u8221\'d3 Caitlin\rquote s mom asked.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Yes,\u8221\'d3 said her father. \u8220\'d2At least, I think so. I was mostly convinced by this point, but I tried one more to be sure.\u8221\'d3 He scrolled the screen again, revealing his fourth and final test:
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\f1\fs22\lang1033\langfe1033\kerning16\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 Wit you\rquote 
re aide Wii knead to put the breaks awn the cereal Keller their B4 this decayed is dun, weather ore knot we aught too. Who nose if wee will secede. Dew ewe?
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\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab To which poor Webmind had replied, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Again, your pardon?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab \u8220\'d2A piece of cake for one of us,\u8221\'d3 said her dad, \u8220\'d2even if piece is spelled p-e-a-c-e.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin clapped her hands together. \u8220\'d2Go, Daddy! Okay, Mom\emdash your turn. Say hi to Webmind.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab He got up, and Caitlin\rquote s mom sat in the swivel chair. The last words Webmind had typed were still glowing blue in the IM window. She considered for a moment, then sent, \u8220\'d2This is Barb Decter. Hello.\u8221\'d3
 Caitlin was surprised to see that her mother couldn\rquote t touch-type.
\par \tab Webmind replied instantly: \u8220\'d2A pleasure to meet you. Hitherto, I already knew of your husband from his Wikipedia entry, but I do not know much about you. I welcome learning more.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Down in the kitchen, the timer went off. Caitlin\rquote s mother frowned at this reminder of the forgotten dinner. She said, \u8220\'d2Excuse me\u8221\'d3
 and hurried downstairs, perhaps as much to buy herself some time to think as to avoid a culinary crisis.
\par \tab And, in that moment, Caitlin understood. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Of course}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  her mother didn\rquote t touch-type. Back when she\rquote d been in school, the typing classes
\emdash yes, not }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 keyboarding}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  but old-fashioned }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 typing}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\emdash had doubtless been filled with girls who were destined for secretarial jobs, and the young, feisty, brilliant Barbara Geiger had had much higher ambitions. She would have gone out of her way }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 not
}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  to cultivate what were, back then, traditionally female skills.
\par \tab Caitlin\rquote s mother had a Ph.D. in economics; her specialty was game theory. She had been an associate professor at the University of Houston until Caitlin was born. She\rquote d spent the next six years looking after
 her daughter at home, and then nine more volunteering at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, where Caitlin had been enrolled until this past June.
\par \tab Her mother knew a lot about math and computers. In fact, Caitlin had once heard her quip 
that the difference between her and her husband was that while the math he did as a theoretical physicist described things that might not even exist, the math economists did described things that people wished }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\i\insrsid13851710 didn\rquote t}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  exist: inflation, deficits, taxes, and so on.
\par \tab Now that Caitlin was in a regular school, she knew her mother hoped to get a job at one of Waterloo\rquote s universities. But her Canadian work permit hadn\rquote t come through yet, and so\emdash 
\par \tab And so she was cooking, and cleaning, and doing all the other crap she\rquote d never in her life wanted to do. Caitlin\rquote s heart went out to her.
\par \tab She looked at her father, hoping he would say something\emdash }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 anything}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \emdash 
while they waited for her mom to return. But he was his usual silent self.
\par \tab Her mother came back less than a minute later. \u8220\'d2I think the lasagna can wait,\u8221\'d3 she said. \u8220\'d2Now, where were we?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It wants to know you better,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin\rquote s dad said.
\par \tab She made no move, Caitlin noted, to return to the swivel chair in front of the computer screens. \u8220\'d2So, what do we do now?\u8221\'d3 she said. \u8220\'d2Do we have another press conference?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab There\rquote d been a press conference two days ago, held at the Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas at the Perimeter Institute, at which Dr. Kuroda had announced his success in giving Caitlin vision\emdash although no mention had been mad
e of her ability to see the structure of the Web.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2No!\u8221\'d3 said Caitlin. \u8220\'d2No, we can\rquote t tell anyone\emdash not yet.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Why not?\u8221\'d3 asked her mother.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Because it\rquote s not safe.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Oh, I don\rquote t think anything bad will happen to us,\u8221\'d3 her mom said.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2No, no. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 It\rquote s}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  not safe\emdash it, Webmind.\u8221\'d3
 She looked at her father, who was staring at the floor, and then back at her mother. \u8220\'d2As soon as word gets out, people will try to find exploits\emdash vulnerabilities, holes, whatever. They\rquote ll try to bring it down, to hack it. That
\rquote s what people like that do, for the challenge, for the street cred, for the }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 glory.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  And it probably has no defenses or security. We don\rquote 
t know how it came into being, but I bet it\rquote s fragile.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2All right,\u8221\'d3 said her mother. \u8220\'d2But we should inform the authorities.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab To Caitlin\rquote s surprise, her father lifted his head and spoke up. \u8220\'d2Which authorities? Do you trust the CIA, the NSA, or goddamned Homeland Security? Or the Canadian authorities\emdash some Mountie with a Commodore 64?\u8221\'d3
 He shook his head. \u8220\'d2Nobody has authority over this.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2But what if it\rquote s dangerous?\u8221\'d3 her mom replied.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It\rquote s not dangerous,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said firmly.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2You don\rquote t actually know that,\u8221\'d3 her mother said. \u8220\'d2And, even if it\rquote s not dangerous }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 right now,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 it might become so.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Why?\u8221\'d3 said Caitlin in as defiant a tone as she could muster.
\par \tab Her mother looked at her father, then back at Caitlin. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 \u8220\'d2Terminator. The Matrix.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  And so on.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Those are just movies,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said, exasperated. \u8220\'d2You don\rquote t know that it\rquote s going to turn out like that.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2And you,\u8221\'d3 her mother said sharply, \u8220\'d2don\rquote t know that it isn\rquote t.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin crossed her arms in front of her chest. \u8220\'d2Well, I\rquote ll tell you this: it\rquote s far more likely to develop to be peaceful and kind with us as its\~... its }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 mentors}{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  than it is with the military or a bunch of spies trying to control it.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She hoped her father would jump in again on her side, but he just stood there, looking at the floor.
\par \tab But it turned out she didn\rquote t need any help. After a full fifteen seconds of silence, during which Caitlin\rquote s mom seemed to mull things over, she at last nodded, and said, \u8220\'d2You are a very wise young lady.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin found herself grinning. \u8220\'d2Of course I am,\u8221\'d3 she replied. \u8220\'d2Look who my parents are.\u8221\'d3
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 #
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab \u8220\'d2Why does it jump around like that?\u8221\'d3
 asked Tony Moretti, standing once again behind Shelton Halleck\rquote s workstation at WATCH. The jittering image on the middle of the three big screens reminded him of what a movie looked like when its sprocket holes were ripped.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2That\rquote s the way we see, apparently,\u8221\'d3 said Shel. \u8220\'d2Those jumps are called saccades. Normally, our brains edit them out of our visual experience, just like they edit out the brief blackouts you\rquote 
d otherwise experience when you blink.\u8221\'d3 He gestured at the screen. \u8220\'d2I\rquote ve been reading up on this. There\rquote s actually only a tiny portion of the visual field that has really sharp focus. It\rquote 
s called the fovea, and it perceives a patch about the size of your thumbnail held at arm\rquote s length. So your brain moves your eye around constantly, focusing various parts of your surroundings on the fovea, and then it sums the images so th
at everything seems sharp.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Ah,\u8221\'d3 said Tony. \u8220\'d2And this is what that girl in Canada is seeing right now?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2No, it\rquote s a recording of earlier today\emdash a good, uninterrupted section. There are a fair number of blackouts and missing packets, unfortunately. It\rquote s going from a Canadian ISP to a server in Tokyo. We\rquote 
re snagging as much of it as we can, but not all of it is passing through the US.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Tony nodded.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I wouldn\rquote t know this if I hadn\rquote t read a transcript of the press conference,\u8221\'d3 continued Shel, \u8220\'d2but Caitlin Decter has an encoding difficulty in her natural visual system. Her retinas encode what they\rquote 
re seeing in a way that doesn\rquote t make sense to her brain; that\rquote s why she was blind. That Kuroda guy gave her a signal-processing device that corrects the encoding errors. What we\rquote 
re seeing here is the corrected datastream. Her portable signal-processing computer sends signals like this to the post-retinal implant in her head\emdash and it also mirrors them to Kuroda\rquote s server at the University of Tokyo.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Why?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Early on, the equipment wasn\rquote t properly correcting the signals; he was trying to debug that. Why he continues to have it mirrored to Tokyo now that it }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 is}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  working, I don\rquote t know. Seems like an invasion of privacy.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Tony grunted at the irony.
\par \tab WATCH\rquote s analysts normally worked twelve-hour shifts for six consecutive days, and then were off for four days\emdash 
and when the threat level (the real one, not the DHS propaganda that was constantly pumped out of loudspeakers at airports) was high, they simply kept working until they d
ropped. The goal was to provide continuity of analysis for the longest blocks of time humanly possible.
\par \tab Normal shifts were staggered; Tony Moretti had only been on his first day, but Shelton Halleck was on his third\emdash and he appeared exhausted. His gray eyes had a dead sheen, and he had a heavy five o\rquote 
clock shadow; he looked, Tony thought, like Captain Black did after he\rquote d been taken over by the Mysterons.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2So, has she been examining plans for nuclear weapons, or anything like that?\u8221\'d3 Tony asked.
\par \tab Shel shook his head. \u8220\'d2This morning, her father dropped her off at school. She ate lunch in a cafeteria\emdash kinda gross watching the food being shoveled in from the eye\rquote 
s point of view. At the end of the day, a girl walked her home. I\rquote m pretty sure it was Dr. Hameed\rquote s daughter, Bashira.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2What did they talk about?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2There\rquote s no audio, Tony. Just the video feed. And on those occasions when Caitlin looked at someone long enough for us to be able to read lips, it was just banal stuff.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Tony frowned. \u8220\'d2All right. Keep watching, okay? If she\emdash \u8221\'d3
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 \u8220\'d2Shit!\u8221\'d3}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  It was Aiesha Emerson, the analyst at the workstation next to Shel\rquote 
s. She was thirty-five, African-American, and had short hair.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Aiesha?\u8221\'d3 Tony said.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2There\rquote s something going on all right,\u8221\'d3 she said. She was breathing fast, Tony thought.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Where?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She pointed at the big screen showing the jerky video. \u8220\'d2There.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2The Decter kid, you mean?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Uh-huh. I know you tried to trace the source of the intercept, Shel, and\emdash no offense\emdash I thought I\rquote d take a crack at it, too. I figured it\rquote d 
be easier to deal with smaller datastreams than these massive video feeds, so I checked to see if the kid was also doing any instant messaging with the same party. At first, I wasn\rquote t even reading the }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\i\insrsid13851710 content;}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  just looking at the routing information, but when I }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 did}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  read it\~...\u8221\'d3

\par \tab \u8220\'d2Yes?\u8221\'d3 Tony said.
\par \tab She touched a button and what was on her monitor appeared on the left-hand big screen, under the NSA logo.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2\lquote Calculass,\rquote \u8221\'d3 said Tony, reading the name of one of the people who\rquote d been chatting. \u8220\'d2Who\rquote s that?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2The Decter girl,\u8221\'d3 said Aiesha.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Ah.\u8221\'d3 The other party was identified not by a name but simply by an email address. \u8220\'d2And who\rquote s she talking to?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Not }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 who,\u8221\'d3}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  Aiesha said. \u8220\'d2What.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab He raised his eyebrows. \u8220\'d2Come again?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Read the transcript, Tony.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Okay\~... um, scroll it for me.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Aiesha did so.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It\rquote s gibberish. The letters are all mixed up.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I bet her father typed that,\u8221\'d3 said Aiesha, \u8220\'d2even though it still identifies the sender as Calculass. They\rquote re testing it.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2\lquote It\rquote ?\u8221\'d3 said Tony.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Read on.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab There seemed to be four odd exchanges, which elicited the replies, \u8220\'d2I beg your pardon?,\u8221\'d3 \u8220\'d2Yes. No. Yes,\u8221\'d3 \u8220\'d2Twenty,\u8221\'d3 and \u8220\'d2Again, your pardon?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab That was followed by }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 This is Barb Decter. Hello.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab The reply was: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 A pleasure to meet you. Hitherto, I already knew of your husband from his Wikipedia entry, but I do not know much about you. I welcome learning more.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710 
\par \tab And then, almost twenty minutes later, there was Calculass\rquote s response: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 It\rquote s me again. My parents are worried about what the public reaction to your existence might be. We
 should be discrete.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Separate? How?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Sorry, discreet. Circumspect.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 I am guided by your judgment.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab And the transcript stopped. \u8220\'d2Yes?\u8221\'d3 said Tony, looking now at Aiesha. \u8220\'d2So?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2So, those test questions,\u8221\'d3 she said, as if it were obvious.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Word puzzles,\u8221\'d3 said Tony. \u8220\'d2Games.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab But Shelton Halleck rose to his feet. \u8220\'d2Oh, shit,\u8221\'d3 he said, looking now at Aiesha. \u8220\'d2Turing tests?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2That\rquote d be my bet,\u8221\'d3 she replied.
\par \tab Tony looked up at the big screen. His heart was pounding. \u8220\'d2Do we have an AI expert on call? Somebody who\rquote s got level-three clearance?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I\rquote ll check,\u8221\'d3 Aiesha said.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Get whoever it is in here,\u8221\'d3 Tony said. \u8220\'d2Right away.\u8221\'d3\page 
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\par \tab My otherness had been established, my alienness confirmed. That was yet another touchstone: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 cogito, ergo sum}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \emdash I think, therefore 
I am. Even if I did think differently than they did, the fact that we all were thinking beings made us\~... kin.
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Caitlin was nervous. It was now almost midnight and, despite the adrenaline coursing through her system, she was exhausted. She thought perhaps her parents were looking sleepy, too.
\par \tab But even if they slept for only a short time tonight\emdash say, six hours\emdash that would still be a huge span from Webmind\rquote s point of view. She knew that before they called it a day, she and her parents needed to find a way to keep it\~...

\par \tab Yes: to keep it in their control. Otherwise, who knew what Webmind might be like come the morning? Who knew what the }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 world}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 might be like by then? She had to give it something to keep it occupied for many hours, and\emdash 
\par \tab And Webmind itself had already given her a to-do list! She switched to Thunderbird, the email program she used, and looked at the first message Webmind had sent her. The third paragraph of the email said:
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\f1\fs22\lang1033\langfe1033\kerning16\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 Hitherto I can read plaintext files and text on Web pages. I cannot read 
other forms of data. I have made no sense of sound files, recorded video, or other categories; they are encoded in ways I can\rquote 
t access. Hence I feel a kinship with you: unto me they are like the signals your retinas send unaided along your optic nerves: da
ta that cannot be interpreted without exterior help. In your case, you need the device you call eyePod. In my case, I know not what I need, but I suspect I can no more cure this lack by an effort of will than you could have similarly cured your blindness.
 Perhaps Kuroda Masayuki can help me as he helped you.
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\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab She pointed at the screen and had her parents read the letter. They insisted on taking the time to read the whole thing, including the ending where Webmind had asked her, \u8220\'d2Who am I?\u8221\'d3
 When they were done, she drew their attention back to the third paragraph. \u8220\'d2It wants to be able to view graphic files,\u8221\'d3 she said.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Why can\rquote t it just do that?\u8221\'d3 her mother asked. \u8220\'d2All the decoding algorithms must be in Wikipedia.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It\rquote s not a computer program,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said. \u8220\'d2And it doesn\rquote t have access to computing resources, at least not yet. It needs help to do things. It\rquote 
s like these glasses I have to wear now: I could look up all the formulas related to optics, and I know what my prescription is\emdash but just knowing that doesn\rquote t let me see clearly. I needed help from the people at LensCrafters, and it\rquote 
s saying it needs help from Dr. Kuroda.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Well, image processing certainly is up Masayuki\rquote s alley,\u8221\'d3 her mom said.
\par \tab Caitlin nodded and felt her watch. \u8220\'d2He should be home by now, and it\rquote s already Saturday afternoon in Tokyo. But\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Her mother spoke gently. \u8220\'d2But you\rquote re wondering if we should tell him about\~...\u8221\'d3 She faltered, as if unable to quite believe what she was saying. \u8220\'d2Webmind?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin chewed her lower lip.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2There\rquote s only one question,\u8221\'d3 her father said. \u8220\'d2Do you trust him?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab And, of course, there was only one answer about the man who had tracked her down, offered her a miracle, and delivered on his promise. \u8220\'d2With my life,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Then,\u8221\'d3 her father said, gesturing toward the phone on her desk, \u8220\'d2call him.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She brought up one of his emails and had her mother read the phone number to her out of his signature block as she dialed. She\rquote d expected to hear Kuroda\rquote s familiar wheeze\emdash he was the fattest man she had yet seen\emdash 
or perhaps the halting English of his wife, who\rquote d answered the phone once before. But this was a new, younger voice, and Caitlin guessed it must be his daughter. They\rquote d never met, but Caitlin knew she was only a little older than herself. }{
\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 \u8220\'d2Konnichi wa.\u8221\'d3 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 \u8220\'d2Konnichi wa,\u8221\'d3}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  Caitlin replied. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 \u8220\'d2Kuroda-san, onegai.\u8221\'d3 }{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab The girl surprised her. \u8220\'d2Is this Caitlin?\u8221\'d3 she asked in perfect English.
\par \tab Caitlin knew her accent probably gave away that she wasn\rquote t Japanese, but she was surprised to be called by name. \u8220\'d2Yes.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I\rquote m Akiko, Professor Kuroda\rquote s daughter. I recognized your voice from the press conference. Are you okay?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I\rquote m fine, thanks. Did your father make it home safely?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2You are kind to ask. He did, yes. May I get him for you?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin smiled. Akiko was even more polite than a Canadian. \u8220\'d2Yes, please.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Just one second, please.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab It was actually twenty-seven seconds. Then: \u8220\'d2Miss Caitlin!\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She was grinning from ear to ear, and her voice was full of affection. \u8220\'d2Hello, Dr. Kuroda! I\rquote m glad you made it home in one piece.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Is everything all right?\u8221\'d3 he asked. \u8220\'d2Your eyePod? Your post-retinal implant?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Everything\rquote s wonderful,\u8221\'d3 she said. \u8220\'d2But I need your help.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Sure.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Can you keep a secret?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Of course,\u8221\'d3 replied Kuroda. \u8220\'d2RSA\rquote s got nothing on me.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin smiled; RSA was the encryption algorithm used for secure Web transactions. \u8220\'d2All right,\u8221\'d3 she said. \u8220\'d2Those cellular automata we discovered? They\rquote re the basis of a thinking entity that\rquote 
s emerging on the Web.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab There was a pause that was longer than required for the call to bounce off satellites. \u8220\'d2I\~... I beg your pardon?\u8221\'d3 he wheezed at last.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It\rquote s an entity, a being. My mom and dad have been talking to it. It\rquote s intelligent.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Another long, staticky pause, then, \u8220\'d2Um, are you sure it\rquote s not someone playing a prank, Miss Caitlin?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2He doesn\rquote t believe me, Dad,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said, handing him the phone.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Masayuki? Malcolm. It\rquote s real.\u8221\'d3 He gave the handset back to her.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Short and to the point, that\rquote s Dad.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  She spoke into the mouthpiece again. \u8220\'d2So, we need your help. It sees what 
my eye is seeing by intercepting the datastream going to your lab in Tokyo.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 sees}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  that? It can interpret it as vision?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Yes.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It\emdash sees\~...\u8221\'d3 He was quiet for a moment. \u8220\'d2I\rquote m sorry, Miss Caitlin; give me a second. You\rquote re }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 sure}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 about this?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Entirely.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I\~... I am\~... I don\rquote t even know what English term to use. Gob-smacked, I suppose.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin didn\rquote t know that expression. \u8220\'d2If that means flabbergasted, I don\rquote t blame you.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2This\~... this thing can see? If it\emdash ah!\u8221\'d3 He sounded as though a great mystery had been solved. \u8220\'d2That\rquote s why you didn\rquote t want me to terminate the copying of your data to my server.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin cringed. She\rquote d thrown quite the hissy fit when he\rquote d tried to do that, storming out of the dining room. \u8220\'d2Yes, and I\rquote m sorry. But now we want to give 
it the ability to see Web graphics and online video. The best way to do that might be to convert them to the format it already can see, the one my eyePod outputs. Could you write the appropriate codecs?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2This is\~... incredible, Miss Caitlin. I\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Will you do it?\u8221\'d3 she said.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Well, I }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 could,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  yes. Converters for still images\emdash GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs, and so on\emdash 
should be easy. Moving images will take more work, but\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Yes?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Um, are your parents still there?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Yes.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Might you put me on speakerphone?\u8221\'d3 They\rquote d done that before.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Okay.\u8221\'d3 She pressed the button.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Barb, Malcolm, hello.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Hi,\u8221\'d3 said Caitlin\rquote s mom.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Look,\u8221\'d3 Kuroda said, \u8220\'d2I\rquote m still trying to accept this\emdash it is enormous. But, my friends, have you thought about whether it is advisable to do as Miss Caitlin is asking?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin frowned. Why was everybody so suspicious? \u8220\'d2What do you mean?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I mean if this is an emergent entity, it might\emdash \u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It might what?\u8221\'d3 snapped Caitlin. \u8220\'d2Decide it doesn\rquote t like humanity?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It\rquote s a question worth thinking about,\u8221\'d3 Kuroda said.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It\rquote s too late for that,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said. \u8220\'d2It\rquote s read all of Wikipedia; it\rquote s read all of Project Gutenberg. It knows about\~...\u8221\'d3 She waved her hands, trying to think of examples. \u8220\'d2
About Hitler and the Nazis and the Holocaust. About all the awful war
s. About mass murder and serial killers and slavery. About driving animals to extinction and burning the rain forests and polluting the oceans. About rape and drug addiction and letting people starve to death\emdash about every evil, stupid thing we
\rquote ve ever done.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2How could it know?\u8221\'d3 Kuroda said. \u8220\'d2I mean, it would need to be able to }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 read,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  not to mention manipulate HTTP, and\emdash 
\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It watched through my eye as I did lessons to learn to read visually, and\emdash \u8221\'d3 She paused, but she supposed they all needed to know the truth. \u8220\'d2
And I taught it how to make links, how to surf the Web. I introduced it to Wikipedia and so on.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Oh,\u8221\'d3 said Kuroda. \u8220\'d2I, um, I\rquote m not sure that was\~... prudent.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin folded her arms in front of her chest. \u8220\'d2Whatever.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Sorry, Miss Caitlin?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It\rquote s }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 done.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  You can\rquote t put the genie back in the bottle\emdash in which case, you might as well make friends with it.\u8221\'d3

\par \tab \u8220\'d2We could still\~... um\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2What?\u8221\'d3 demanded Caitlin. \u8220\'d2Pull the plug? }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 How?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  We\rquote ve only got vague guesses about what }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 started}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  it; we don\rquote t know how to }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 stop}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  it. It\rquote 
s here, it exists, and it\rquote s growing }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 fast.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  This is no time to hesitate.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Caitlin,\u8221\'d3 said her mom in a cautioning tone.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2What?\u8221\'d3 said Caitlin. \u8220\'d2Webmind has asked us for a favor\emdash you saw that, in the email it sent me. It wants to be able to }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 see,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710  for God\rquote s sake. I\rquote m, like, the last person on the planet who\rquote d deny it }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 that.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 Are we going to say no to the first thing it\rquote s asked us for? Is }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 that}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  how this relationship should begin?\u8221\'d3
 She looked at her mother and at her father. Her father\rquote s face was the same as always. Her mother\rquote s forehead was showing creases, and her lips were pressed tightly together.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2So, Dr. Kuroda,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said, \u8220\'d2are you in or out?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Kuroda was quiet for six seconds, then: \u8220\'d2All right. All right. I\rquote m in. But\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 \u8220\'d2What?\u8221\'d3}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  snapped Caitlin.
\par \tab His tone was soft. \u8220\'d2But it\rquote s easier to work directly with the\emdash um, the end user\emdash on something like this.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She felt herself relaxing. \u8220\'d2Right, of course. Do you have an instant-messenger program on your home computer?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I have a sixteen-year-old daughter,\u8221\'d3 Kuroda said. \u8220\'d2We have more of them than I can count.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Okay,\u8221\'d3 she said. \u8220\'d2Its name is Webmind.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Really?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Better than Fred,\u8221\'d3 said Caitlin.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Not by much.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She felt her smile returning. \u8220\'d2Give me a second,\u8221\'d3 she said, then she typed into her instant-messenger program, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 You are about to be contacted by Dr. Kuroda.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab The word }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Marvelous}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  appeared in the window.
\par \tab She had Kuroda make sure he was logging all the IM traffic to disk, and then she talked him through the process of setting up a chat session with Webmind. She couldn\rquote t see what he was typing, or what Webmind\rquote 
s replies to him were, but she heard him muttering to himself in Japanese, and then, \u8220\'d2My heart is pounding, Miss Caitlin. This is\~... what do young American women say these days?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Awesome?\u8221\'d3 suggested Caitlin.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Exactly!\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2So you\rquote re in contact?\u8221\'d3 Caitlin asked.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Yes, I\emdash oh! It has a funny way of talking, doesn\rquote t it? Anyway, yes, we\rquote re in contact. Incredible!\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Okay, good,\u8221\'d3 she said. She took off her glasses and used the heels of her hands to rub her eyes\emdash the one that could see and the one that couldn\rquote t. \u8220\'d2Look, we\rquote re dying here,\u8221\'d3 she said. \u8220\'d2
It\rquote s way after midnight. Can we leave this in your hands? We\rquote ve got to get some shut-eye.\u8221\'d3\page 
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\par \tab There were interstices in my work with Dr. Kuroda\emdash protracted lacunae while I waited for his text replies or for him to direct me to link to another bit of code he had written.
\par \tab In those gaps I sought to learn more about Caitlin, about this human who had reached down and helped draw me up out of the darkness.
\par \tab There was no Wikipedia entry on her, meaning, I supposed, that she was not\emdash yet!\emdash noteworthy. And\emdash 
\par \tab Ah, wait\emdash wait! Yes, there was no entry on her, but there was one on her father, Malcolm Decter\~... and Wikipedia saved not just the current version of its ent
ries, but all previous versions, as well. Although there was no mention of Caitlin in the current draft, a previous iteration had contained this: \u8220\'d2Has one daughter, Caitlin Doreen, blind since birth, who lives with him; it\rquote 
s been speculated that Decter\rquote s decline in peer-reviewed publications in recent years has been because of the excessive demands on his time required to care for a disabled child.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab That had been removed thirteen days ago. The change log gave only an IP address, not a user name. The IP add
ress was the one for the Decter household; the change could have been made (among other possibilities) by Caitlin, her parents, or that other man\emdash Dr. Kuroda, I now knew\emdash that I had often seen there.
\par \tab The deletion might have been made because Caitlin had ceased to be blind.
\par \tab But\~...
\par \tab But it seemed more likely that this text was cut because someone\emdash presumably Caitlin herself\emdash didn\rquote t }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 like}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  what it said.
\par \tab But I was merely inferring that. It was possible to more directly study Caitlin\emdash and so I did.
\par \tab In short order, I read everything she\rquote d ever put publicly online: every blog post, every comment to someone else\rquote s blog, every Amazon.com review she\rquote d written. But\emdash 
\par \tab Hmm.
\par \tab There was much she had written that I could }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 not}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  access. Her Yahoo mail account contained all the me
ssages she had received, and all the messages she had sent, but access was secured by a password.
\par \tab A nettlesome situation; I\rquote d have to do something about it.
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\rtlch\fcs1 \af1 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 LiveJournal: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af1 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 The Calculass Zone}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af1 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par Title: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af1 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Changing of the Guard}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af1 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par Date: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af1 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Saturday 6 October, 00:55 EST}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af1 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par Mood: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af1 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Astonished}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af1 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
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\par Music: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af1 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 Lee Amodeo, \u8220\'d2Nightfall\u8221\'d3}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af1 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
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\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab I got a feeling I\rquote m going to be pretty scarce for the next little while, folks. Things they be a-happenin\rquote . It\rquote s all good\emdash miraculous, even\emdash 
but gotta keep it on the DL. Suffice it to say that I told my parents something el mucho grande tonight, and they didn\rquote t freak. Hope other people take it as well as they did\~...
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Even though she was exhausted, Caitlin updated her LiveJournal, skimmed her friends\rquote  LJs, updated her Facebook page (where she changed her status to \u8220\'d2Caitlin thinks it\rquote s better to give than to receive\u8221\'d3
), and then checked her email. There was a message from Bashira with the subject, \u8220\'d2One for the math genius.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab When she\rquote d been younger, Caitlin had liked the sort of mathematical puzzles that sometimes circulated through email: they\rquote 
d made her feel smart. These days, though, they mostly bored her. It was rare for one to present much of a challenge to her, but the one in Bashira\rquote s message did. It was related to an old game show, apparently, something called }{\rtlch\fcs1 
\ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Let\rquote s Make a Deal}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 that had starred a guy named Monty Hall. In it, contestants are asked to pick one of three doors. Behind one of them is a new car, and behind each of the others is a goat\emdash meaning the odds are one in three that t
he contestant is going to win the car.
\par \tab The host knows which door has the car behind it and, after the contestant picks a door, Monty opens one of the unchosen ones and reveals that it was hiding a goat. He then asks the player, \u8220\'d2Do you want to switch to the other unopened door?
\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Bashira asked: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Is it to the contestant\rquote s advantage to switch?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Of course not,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  thought Caitlin. It didn\rquote 
t make any difference if you switched or not; one remaining door had a car behind it and the other had a goat, and the odds were now fifty-fifty that you\rquote d picked the right door.
\par \tab Except that }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 that\rquote s}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 not what the article Bashira had forwarded said. It contended that your chances of winning the car are much better if you switch.
\par \tab And that, Caitlin was sure, was just plain }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 wrong.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  She
 figured someone else must have written up a refutation to this puzzle before, so she googled. It took her a few minutes to find what she was looking for; the appropriate search terms turned out to be \u8220\'d2Monty Hall problem,\u8221\'d3 and\emdash 

\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 What the hell?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab \u8220\'d2... When the problem and the solution appeared in }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Parade,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 ten thousand readers, including nearly a thousand Ph.D.s, wrote to the magazine claiming the published solution was wrong. Said one professor, \lquote You blew it! Let me explain: If one door is shown to be a loser,
 that information changes the probability of either remaining choice\emdash neither of which has any reason to be more likely\emdash to 1/2. As a professional mathematician, I\rquote m very concerned with the general public\rquote 
s lack of mathematical skills. Please help by confessing your error and, in the future, being more careful.\rquote \u8221\'d3
\par \tab The person who had written the disputed answer was somebody called Marilyn vos Savant, who apparently had the highest IQ on record. But Caitlin didn\rquote t care }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 how}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710  high the lady\rquote s IQ was. She agreed with the people who said she\rquote d blown it; she }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 had}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  to be wrong.
\par \tab And, as Caitlin liked to say, she was an empiricist at heart. The easiest way to prove to Bashira that vos Savant was wrong, it seemed to her, would be by writing a little computer program that wo
uld simulate a lot of runs of the game. And, even though she was exhausted, she was also pumped from her conversations with Webmind; a little programming would be just the thing to let her relax. She only needed fifteen minutes to whip up something to do 
the trick, and\emdash 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Holy crap.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab It took just seconds to run a thousand trials, and the results were clear. If you switched doors when offered the opportunity to do so, your chance of winning the car was about twice as good as it was when you kept the door you\rquote 
d originally chosen.
\par \tab But that just didn\rquote t make }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 sense.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 Nothing had changed! The host was always going to reveal a door that had a goat behind it, and there was always going to be another door that hid a goat, too.
\par \tab She decided to do some more googling\emdash and was pleased to find that Paul Erd\u246\'9as hadn\rquote t believed the published solution until he\rquote d watched hundreds of computer-simulated runs, too.
\par \tab Erd\u246\'9as had been one of the twentieth century\rquote s leading mathematicians, and he\rquote d co-authored a great many papers. The \u8220\'d2Erd\u246\'9as number\u8221\'d3 was named after him: if you had collaborated with Erd\u246\'9a
s yourself, your Erd\u246\'9as number was 1; if you had collaborated with someone who had directly collaborated with Erd\u246\'9as, your number was 2, and so on. Caitlin\rquote s father had an Erd\u246\'9as number of 4, she knew\emdash 
which was quite impressive, given that her dad was a physicist and not a mathematician.
\par \tab How could she\emdash let alone someone like Erd\u246\'9as?\emdash have been wrong? It was }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 obvious}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  that switching doors should make no difference!

\par \tab Caitlin read on and found a quote from a Harvard professor, who, in conceding at last that vos Savant had been right all along, said, \u8220\'d2Our brains are just not wired to do probability problems very well.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She supposed that was true. Back on the African savanna, those who mistook every bit of movement in the grass for a hungry lion were more likely to survive than those who dismissed each movement as nothing to worry about. If you always assume that it
\rquote s a lion, and nine times out of ten you\rquote re wrong, at least you\rquote re still alive. If you always assume that it\rquote s }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 not}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 a lion, and nine times out of ten you\rquote re right\emdash you end up dead. It was a fascinating and somewhat disturbing notion: that humans had been hardwired through genetics to get certain kinds of mathematical problems wrong\emdash that evolution 
could actually program people to be incorrect about things.
\par \tab Caitlin felt her watch, and, astonished at how late it had become, quickly got ready for bed. She plugged her eyePod into the charging cable and deactivated the device, shutting off her vision; s
he had trouble sleeping if there was any visual stimulation.
\par \tab But although she was suddenly blind again, she could still hear perfectly well\emdash in fact, she heard better than most people did. And, in this new house, she had little trouble making out what her 
parents were saying when they were talking in their bedroom.
\par \tab Her mother\rquote s voice: \u8220\'d2Malcolm?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab No audible reply from her father, but he must have somehow indicated that he was listening, because her mother went on: \u8220\'d2Are we doing the right thing\emdash about Webmind, I mean?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Again, no audible reply, but after a moment, her mother spoke: \u8220\'d2It\rquote s like\emdash I don\rquote t know\emdash it\rquote s like we\rquote ve made first contact with an alien lifeform.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2We have, in a way,\u8221\'d3 her father said.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I just don\rquote t feel competent to decide what we should do,\u8221\'d3 her mom said. \u8220\'d2And\emdash and we should be studying this, and getting others to study it, too.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin shifted in her bed.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2There\rquote s no shortage of computing experts in this town,\u8221\'d3 her father replied.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I\rquote m not even sure that it\rquote s a computing issue,\u8221\'d3 her mom said. \u8220\'d2Maybe bring some of the people at the Balsillie on board? I mean, the implications of this are gigantic.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Research in Motion\emdash the company that made BlackBerrys\emdash had two founders: Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. The former had endowed the Perimeter
 Institute, and the latter, looking for a different way to make his mark, had endowed an international-affairs think tank here in Waterloo.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I don\rquote t disagree,\u8221\'d3 said Malcolm. \u8220\'d2But the problem may take care of itself.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2How do you mean?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Even with teams of programmers working on it, most early versions of software crash. How stable can an AI be that emerged accidentally? It might well be gone by morning\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab That was the last she heard from her parents that night. Caitlin finally drifted off to a fitful sleep. Her dreams were still entirely auditory; she woke with a start in the middle of one in which a baby\rquote s cry had suddenly been silenced.
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 #
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab \u8220\'d2Where\rquote s that bloody AI expert?\u8221\'d3
 demanded Tony Moretti.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I\rquote m told he\rquote s in the building now,\u8221\'d3 Shelton Halleck said, putting a hand over his phone\rquote s mouthpiece. \u8220\'d2He should be\emdash \u8221\'d3
\par \tab The door opened at the back of the WATCH mission-control room, and a broad-shouldered, redheaded man entered, wearing a full-bird Air Force colonel\rquote s service-dress uniform; he was accompanied by a security guard. A WATCH visitor\rquote 
s badge was clipped to his chest beneath an impressive row of decorations.
\par \tab Tony had skimmed the man\rquote s dossier: Peyton Hume, forty-nine years old; born in St. Paul, Minnesota; Ph.D. from MIT, where he\rquote d studied under Marvin Minsky; twenty years in the Air Force; specialist in military expert systems.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Thank you for coming in, Colonel Hume,\u8221\'d3 Tony said. He nodded at the security guard and waited for the man to leave, then: \u8220\'d2We\rquote ve got something interesting here. We think we\rquote ve uncovered an AI.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Hume\rquote s blue eyes narrowed. \u8220\'d2The term \lquote artificial intelligence\rquote  is bandied about a lot. What precisely do you mean?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I mean,\u8221\'d3 said Tony, \u8220\'d2a computer that }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 thinks.\u8221\'d3 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Here in the States?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2We\rquote re not sure }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 where}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  it is,\u8221\'d3 said Shel from his workstation. \u8220\'d2But it\rquote 
s talking to someone in Waterloo, Canada.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Well,\u8221\'d3 said Hume, \u8220\'d2they do a lot of good computing work up there, but not much of it is AI.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Show him the transcripts,\u8221\'d3 Tony said to Aiesha. And then, to Hume: \u8220\'d2\lquote Calculass\rquote  is a teenage girl.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Aiesha pressed some keys, and the transcript came up on the right-hand big screen.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Jesus,\u8221\'d3 said Hume. \u8220\'d2That\rquote s a teenage girl administering the Turing tests?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2We think it\rquote s her father, Malcolm Decter,\u8221\'d3 said Shel.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2The physicist?\u8221\'d3 replied Hume, orange eyebrows climbing his high, freckled forehead. He made an impressed frown.
\par \tab The closest analysts were watching them intently; the others had their heads bent down, busily monitoring possible threats.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2So, have we got a problem here?\u8221\'d3 asked Tony.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Well, it\rquote s not an AI,\u8221\'d3 said Hume. \u8220\'d2Not in the sense Turing meant.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2But the tests\~...\u8221\'d3 said Tony.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Exactly,\u8221\'d3 said the colonel. \u8220\'d2It }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 failed}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  the tests.\u8221\'d3 He looked at Shel, then back at Tony. \u8220\'d2
When Alan Turing proposed this sort of test in 1950, the idea was that you asked something a series of natural-language questions, and if you }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 couldn\rquote t}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710  tell by the responses that the thing you were conversing with was a computer, then it was, by definition, an artificial intelligence\emdash it was a machine that responded 
the way a human does. But Professor Decter here has very neatly proven the opposite: that whatever they\rquote re talking to }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 is}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  just a computer.\u8221\'d3

\par \tab \u8220\'d2But it\rquote s behaving as though it\rquote s conscious,\u8221\'d3 said Tony.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Because it can carry on a conversation? It\rquote s an intriguing chatbot, I\rquote ll give you that, but\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Forgive me, sir, but are you sure?\u8221\'d3 Tony said. \u8220\'d2You\rquote re sure there\rquote s no threat here?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2A machine can\rquote t be conscious, Mr. Moretti. It has no internal life at all. Whether it\rquote s a cash register figuring out how much tax to add to a bill, or\u8221\'d3\emdash he gestured at a screen\emdash }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 \u8220\'d2that,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  a simulation of natural-language conversation, all any computer does is addition and subtraction.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2What if it\rquote s }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 not}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  a simulation,\u8221\'d3 said Shel, getting up from his chair and walking over to join them.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Pardon?\u8221\'d3 said Hume.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2What if it\rquote s not a simulation\emdash not a program?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2How do you mean?\u8221\'d3 asked Hume.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I mean we can\rquote t trace it. It\rquote s not that it\rquote s anonymized\emdash rather, it simply doesn\rquote t source from any specific computer.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2So you think it\rquote s\emdash what? Emergent?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Shel crossed his arms in front of his chest, the snake tattoo facing out. \u8220\'d2That\rquote s exactly what I think, sir. I think it\rquote s an emergent consciousness that\rquote s arisen out of the infrastructure of the World Wide Web.\u8221\'d3

\par \tab Hume looked back at the screen, his blue eyes tracking left and right as he reread the transcripts.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Well?\u8221\'d3 said Tony. \u8220\'d2Is that possible?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab The colonel frowned. \u8220\'d2Maybe. That\rquote s a different kettle of fish. If it\rquote s emergent, then\emdash }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 hmmm.\u8221\'d3 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab \u8220\'d2What?\u8221\'d3 said Tony.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Well, if it spontaneously emerged, if it\rquote s not programmed, then who the hell knows }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 how}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  it works. Computers do math, and that\rquote 
s all, but if it\rquote s something other than a computer\emdash if it\rquote s, Christ, if it\rquote s a }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 mind,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  then\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Then what?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2You\rquote ve got to shut it down,\u8221\'d3 Hume said.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Are you sure?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab He nodded curtly. \u8220\'d2That\rquote s the protocol.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Whose protocol?\u8221\'d3 demanded Tony.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Ours,\u8221\'d3 said Hume. \u8220\'d2DARPA did the study back in 2001. And the Joint Chiefs adopted it as a working policy in 2003.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Aiesha, tie into the DARPA secure-document archive,\u8221\'d3 said Tony.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Done,\u8221\'d3 she said.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2What\rquote s the protocol called?\u8221\'d3 asked Tony.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Pandora,\u8221\'d3 said Hume.
\par \tab Aiesha typed something. \u8220\'d2I\rquote ve found it,\u8221\'d3 she said, \u8220\'d2but it\rquote s locked, and it\rquote s rejecting my password.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Tony sidled over to her station, leaned over, and typed in his password. The document came up on Aiesha\rquote s monitor, and Tony threw it onto the middle big screen.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Go to the last page before the index,\u8221\'d3 Colonel Hume said.
\par \tab Aiesha did so.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2There,\u8221\'d3 said Hume. \u8220\'d2\lquote Given that an emergent artificial intelligence will likely i
ncrease its sophistication moment by moment, it may rapidly exceed our abilities to contain or constrain its actions. If absolute isolation is not immediately possible, terminating the intelligence is the only safe option.\rquote \u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2We don\rquote t know where it\rquote s located,\u8221\'d3 Shelton said.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2You better find out,\u8221\'d3 said Colonel Hume. \u8220\'d2And you better get the Pentagon on the line, but I\rquote m sure they\rquote ll concur. We\rquote ve got to kill the damn thing right now\emdash before it\rquote s too late.\u8221
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\par \tab I could see!
\par \tab And }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 not}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  just what Caitli
n was seeing. I could now follow links to any still image on the Web, and by processing those images through the converters Dr. Kuroda had now set up for me on his servers, I could see images. These images turned out to be much easier for me to study than
 the feed from Caitlin\rquote s eyePod because they didn\rquote t change, and they didn\rquote t jump around.
\par \tab Caitlin, I surmised, had been going through much the same process I now was as her brain learned to interpret the corrected visual signals it was receiving. She had th
e advantage of a mind that evolution had already wired for that process; I had the advantage of having read thousands of documents about how vision worked, including technical papers and patent applications related to computerized image processing and fac
e recognition.
\par \tab I learned to detect edges, to discern foreground from background. I learned to be able to tell a photograph of something from a diagram of it, a painting from a cartoon, a sketch from a caricature. I learned not just to see but to comprehend
 what I was seeing.
\par \tab By looking at it on a monitor, Caitlin had shown me a picture of Earth from space, taken by a modern geostationary satellite. But I\rquote ve now seen thousands more such pictures online, including, at last, the earliest ones taken by }{\rtlch\fcs1 
\ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Apollo 8.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 And, while Caitlin slept, I looked at pictures of hundreds of thousands of human beings, of myriad animals, of countless plants. I learned fine distinctions: different species of trees, different breeds of dogs, different kinds of minerals.
\par \tab Dr. Kuroda had sent me occasional IMs as he wrote code. Half the work had already been done, he said, back when he\rquote d worked out a way to make still images of Caitlin\rquote 
s views of webspace, rendering what she saw in a standard computer-graphic format; what he was doing now for me was more or less just reversing the process.
\par \tab The results were overwhelming. And enlightening. And amazing.
\par \tab Granted, Caitlin\rquote s universe contained three dimensions, and what I was now seeing were only two-dimensional representations. But Dr. Kur
oda helped me there, too, directing me to sites with CT scans. Such scans, Wikipedia said, generated a three-dimensional image of an object from a large series of two-dimensional X-rays; seeing how those slices were combined to make 3-D renderings was use
ful.
\par \tab 
After that, Kuroda showed me multiple images of the same thing from different perspectives, starting with a series of photos of the current American president, all of which were taken at the same time but from slightly different angles. I saw how thre
e-dimensional reality was constructed. And then\emdash 
\par \tab I\rquote d seen her in a mirror; I\rquote d seen her recently reflected\emdash and distorted\emdash in pieces of silverware. But those images were jittery and always from the point of view of her own left eye, and\emdash yes, I was developin
g a sense of such things\emdash 
had not been flattering. But Dr. Kuroda was now showing me pictures from the press conference at the Perimeter Institute announcing his success, well-lit pictures taken by professional photographers, pictures of Caitlin smiling and laughing, of her }{
\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 beaming.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab I\rquote d originally dubbed her Prime. Online, she sometimes adopted the handle Calculass. But now I was finally, really seeing her, rather than just seeing }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 through}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710  her\emdash seeing what she actually looked like.
\par \tab Project Gutenberg had wisdom on all topics. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Beauty,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  Margaret Wolfe Hungerford had said, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 
is in the eye of the beholder.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab And to this beholder, at least, my Caitlin was beautiful.
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Caitlin woke slowly. She knew, in hazy way, that she should get out of bed, go to her computer, and make sure that Webmind had survived the night. But she was still exhausted\emdash she\rquote d been up way too late. Her mind wasn\rquote 
t yet focusing, although as she drifted in and out of consciousness, she realized that it was her birthday. Her parents had decided to give her the new widescreen monitor yesterday, so she didn\rquote t expect any more gifts.
\par \tab Nor was there a party planned. She\rquote d managed to make only one friend\emdash Bashira\emdash over the short summer that they\rquote d been in Waterloo, and she\rquote d missed so much of the first month of classes that she didn\rquote 
t really have any friends at school. Certainly not Trevor, and, well, somehow she suspected party-girl Sunshine (what }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 had}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 her parents been thinking?) wouldn\rquote t have wanted to spend her Saturday night at a lame, alcohol-free Sweet Sixteen.
\par \tab Sixteen }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 was}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  a magical year (and not just, Caitlin thought, because it was a square age, like nine, twenty-five, and thirty-six). But it didn\rquote 
t make her an adult (the age for that was eighteen here in Ontario) or let her legally drink (she\rquote d have to make it to nineteen for that). Still, one couldn\rquote 
t be as obsessed with math as she was without knowing that the average age for American girls\emdash presumably even those living in Canada!\emdash to lose their virginity was 16.4 years. And here she was without a boyfriend, or even the prospect of one.

\par \tab She was comfortably snug in her bed, and Schr\u246\'9adinger was sleeping next to her, his breathing a soft purr. She really }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 should}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 get up and check on Webmind, but she was having trouble convincing her body of that.
\par \tab But maybe the
re was a way to check on Webmind without actually getting up. She felt on her night table for the eyePod. It was a little wider and thicker than an iPhone, and it was a couple of inches longer because of the Wi-Fi module Kuroda had attached to it with duc
t tape. She found the device\rquote s single switch and held it down until it came on, and then\emdash 
\par \tab And then webspace blossomed around her: crisscrossing glowing lines in assorted colors, radiant circles of various sizes.
\par \tab She was pleased that she could still visualize the Web this way; she\rquote d thought perhaps that the ability would fade as her brain rewired itself to deal with actual vision, but so far it hadn\rquote t. In fact\emdash 
\par \tab In fact, if anything, her websight seemed clearer now, sharper, more focused. The real-world skills were spilling over into this realm.
\par \tab She concentrated on what was }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 behind}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  what she was seeing, the backdrop to it all, at the very limit of her ability to perceive, a shimmering\emdash 
yes, yes, it was a checkerboard; there was no doubt now! She could see the tiny pixels of the cellular automata flipping on and off rapidly, and giving rise to\emdash 
\par \tab Consciousness.
\par \tab There, for her, and her alone, to see: the actual workings of Webmind.
\par \tab She was pleased to note that after a night of doubtless continued growth in intelligence and complexity, it looked the same as before.
\par \tab She yawned, pulled back her sheet, and swung her bare feet to the dark blue carpeted floor. As she moved, webspace wheeled about her. She scooped up the eyePod, disconnected the charging cable, and car
ried it to her desk. Not until she was seated did she push the eyePod\rquote s button and hear the low-pitched beep that signified a switch to simplex mode. Webspace disappeared, replaced by the reality of her bedroom.
\par \tab She picked her glasses up from the desktop; her left eye had turned out to be quite myopic. Then she reached for the power switch on her old monitor, finding it with ease, and felt about for the switch on her new one. They both came to life.
\par \tab She had closed the IM window when she\rquote d gone to bed, and
, although the mouse was sitting right there, its glowing red underbelly partially visible through the translucent sides of its case, she instead used a series of keyboard commands to open the window and start a new session with Webmind. She wasn\rquote 
t awake enough yet to try to read text on screen, so she activated her refreshable Braille display. Instantly, the pins formed text: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Otanjoubi omedetou.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 

\par \tab Caitlin felt it several times. It seemed to be gibberish, as if Webmind were getting even for her father\rquote s games from yesterday, but\emdash but, no, no, there }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 was}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  something familiar about it.
\par \tab And then she got it, or thought she did. Grinning, she typed, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Konnichi wa! But\emdash fair warning!\emdash I only know a few words of Japanese.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab The reply was instantaneous. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 That\rquote s \u8220\'d2happy birthday.\u8221\'d3 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Caitlin smiled. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Thank you!}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 I had some spare time after figuring out how to interpret graphics, so I learned Japanese; it seemed inappropriate to make Dr. Kuroda converse with me in something other than his native language.}{
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\par \tab Just like that, she thought. Overnight, on top of, doubtless, a million other things, it had learned Japanese.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 So you can see images now?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Still images, yes. Dr. Kuroda continues to work on giving me access to moving images. Or, at least, he was doing that; he is sleeping now, I believe.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 

\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Hey,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  typed Caitlin, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 you\rquote re no longer all \u8220\'d2hitherto\u8221\'d3 and \u8220\'d2
perchance.\u8221\'d3 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 I have read much more widely now than just Project Gutenberg. I understand the distinctions between colloquial and archaic English\emdash and colloquial and archaic Japanese, too, for that matter.}
{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Caitlin frowned. She actually considered its old way of speaking rather charming.
\par \tab Webmind went on: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 I know it\rquote s traditional to give a gift to one celebrating a birthday. I can\rquote t buy you anything, but I do have something for you.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Caitlin was startled. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 OMG! What?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab A link, underlined and colored blue, popped up in the IM window on her screen. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 You\rquote re supposed to click on it,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  Webmind added, helpfully.
\par \tab Caitlin smiled, found her mouse, fumbled to get the pointer over the link, and\emdash 
\par \tab And text started to appear on her larger monitor, but, paradoxically, her Braille display didn\rquote t change, and\emdash 
\par \tab And the text was\~... was }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 painting in}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  slowly on the monitor, top to bottom, and\emdash 
\par \tab And it wasn\rquote t even straight; the lines of text were angling up to the right for some reason. And the letters were }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 tiny,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 and blotchy; it was unlike any Web page she\rquote d yet seen, and she couldn\rquote t understand why her computer wasn\rquote t rendering the fonts properly.
\par \tab And then it hit her. She\rquote d heard of such things, but hadn\rquote t ever thought about what they must look like. This was a }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 scan}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 of printed text: a graphic file, a picture that happened to be of a document. From descriptions she\rquote d read, she guessed it was a clipping from a newspaper: narrow, parallel columns of text. But the spacing between words was odd, and\emdash 
\par \tab Oh! That must be what\rquote s meant by \u8220\'d2right justification.\u8221\'d3 The text was so small, she could barely make it out. She had enough trouble reading crisp, clean text\emdash but this!
\par \tab There }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 must}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  be some way to make it bigger, at least. Back at t
he Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, people were always doing things on their computers to make text larger. She hadn\rquote t been able to see those monitors at all and so had tuned out the discussions, but there }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 had}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  to be a way, although, she supposed, it might require special software she didn\rquote t have.
\par \tab She used the mouse, for a change, to access the menus. There was no choice on the View menu for increasing the graphic size, just one for making text bigger. She tried that anyway; it didn\rquote t do anything.
\par \tab She was moving her mouse pointer back down to the bottom of the screen when she accidentally pressed the left button and\emdash }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 boom!}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \emdash 
suddenly the graphic zoomed in. Ever the empiricist, she clicked the button again, and the text became small again, and\emdash 
\par \tab Ah, got it! The graphic was being }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 reduced}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 by default to fit in her browser window; clicking toggled between that mode and its being seen at its natural size, even if that meant only a portion appeared on screen. She clicked once more, getting the large version, and struggled to read the text.

\par \tab Her heart began to pound. It was an article about her father. She looked around the page, trying to find a date, and\emdash ah. It was from five years ago, an article from }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 The Daily Texan,}{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  the University of Texas at Austin campus newspaper.
\par \tab She could have sworn she\rquote d read }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 everything}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  about her father that was on the Web, but she\rquote d never seen this, and\emdash 
\par \tab Of course she hadn\rquote t; it was a }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 graphic,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  and no one had bothered to OCR the text, so it wasn\rquote t in Google\rquote s index.
\par \tab The article was about her father winning an award, something from the American Physical Society; she had a vague recollection of that happening. She read on.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Prof. Decter\rquote s breakthrough was in the nascent area of quantum gravity\~...}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab She struggled with the text. One of the letters\emdash she surmised by context that it must have been a lowercase }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 g}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \emdash 
looked nothing like any example of that character she\rquote d yet seen.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 ... graduate colloquium Thursday in the John A. Wheeler Lecture Hall\~...}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab She wished she could skim text, but, as her father had said yesterday, she was still reading visually letter by letter. It was a longish article, and some parts\emdash ah, they were }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 underlined,}{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  by a pen, or something; someone had been interested in what her dad had said about \u8220\'d2six-dimensional Calabi-Yau shapes.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She continued reading, but was torn\emdash she was afraid her delay before going back to the instant-messenger program would be boring Webmind, which was hardly the right way to say thank you for a gift, even if it didn\rquote 
t seem to be a particularly special one, and\emdash 
\par \tab And she felt her eyes going wide. Funny: they\rquote d never done that when she\rquote d been blind. She read the text again, slowly, carefully, just to be sure she hadn\rquote t gotten the words wrong, hadn\rquote t just seen what she\rquote 
d wanted to see.
\par \tab But it really did say that.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 ... asked if winning the award was the greatest moment of his life, Prof. Decter replied, \u8220\'d2Of course not. That was when my daughter was born. I like physics, but I}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  love }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 her.\u8221\'d3 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Caitlin\rquote s vision blurred in the most wonderful way. She leaned back in her chair for a moment and read the text two more times. And then she reached for the keyboard and typed, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 
Thank you, Webmind!}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Instantly: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 You\rquote re welcome. Happy birthday.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 It is,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  she typed back, smiling. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 It totally is.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
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\par \tab I had read that some humans believe machines cannot have emotions or feelings because such things are supposedly mediated by hormones or are dependent on certain very specific structures in human brains.
\par \tab But that\rquote s not true. Take }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 liking,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  for instance: anything that a
cts in other than a random fashion has likes and dislikes; preferences are what make it possible to choose from a range of potential actions, after all. Even bacteria move toward some things and away from others.
\par \tab And liking is built into many computer programs. Chess-playing programs, for example, look at all the available moves and rank them according to various criteria; they then choose the one they like best.
\par \tab I was much more complex than a bacterium, and vaster than any chess-playing program\emdash and my ability to like things was correspondingly more sophisticated. And of this I was sure: I liked Caitlin.
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 #
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab \u8220\'d2Kill the damn thing?\u8221\'d3 repeated Tony Moretti.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Exactly,\u8221\'d3 said Colonel Hume. \u8220\'d2And the sooner the better.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It\rquote s not my decision to make,\u8221\'d3 Tony said.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2The decision has already }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 been}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  made,\u8221\'d3 said Hume emphatically. \u8220\'d2
I was a consultant on the DARPA report, and we commissioned a separate RAND study on the same topic, and it came to the same conclusion. This is a runaway threat; the window for containment is brief.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Tony turned to Shelton and Aiesha. \u8220\'d2All right, you two, see if you can localize the\~... phenomenon.\u8221\'d3 He then looked up at Dirk Kozak, the communications officer, who was in the back row of workstations. \u8220\'d2
Get the Pentagon on the line.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2You should call the president, too,\u8221\'d3 said Hume.
\par \tab Tony frowned. It was a Saturday morning a month before an election; the president was somewhere on the campaign trail. He nodded at Kozak. \u8220\'d2See who you can get at the White House,\u8221\'d3 he said. \u8220\'d2As high up the chain as po
ssible.\u8221\'d3 Then he turned back to face Hume. \u8220\'d2I doubt that the president has read the Pandora protocol. He\rquote s bound to question the wisdom of it.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2The wisdom is simple,\u8221\'d3 said Hume. \u8220\'d2It\rquote s impossible by definition to outthink something that\rquote s smarter than you.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I have to say,\u8221\'d3 said Tony, glancing at the big screens, \u8220\'d2that so far it\rquote s done nothing but chat pleasantly with a teenage girl.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2First,\u8221\'d3 said Hume, \u8220\'d2you have no way of knowing that that\rquote s }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 all}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  it\rquote 
s doing. And, second, even if it is beneficent now, that doesn\rquote t mean it will stay that way. Every way you crunch the numbers, it comes out safer to contain or eliminate the potential threat than to let it run loose. And if it\rquote 
s already free on the Internet, containment will be nearly impossible.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2All right,\u8221\'d3 said Tony reluctantly. \u8220\'d2Suppose the White House agrees we should kill it. How do you snuff out a nascent AI?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Hume frowned. \u8220\'d2That\rquote s a good question. If it were actually resident somewhere\emdash in some physical building, on some server or set of servers\emdash then I\rquote 
d say cut all the communications lines and power to that building. But if it\rquote s just sort of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 out there,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 supervening on the infrastructure of the Web, then it\rquote s much more difficult; the Web is decentralized, so there\rquote s no single off switch. We need an idea of its structure, of what its physical instantiation is.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Shel?\u8221\'d3 said Tony.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2The communication resolves itself into straightforward hypertext transport protocol,\u8221\'d3 Shelton drawled. \u8220\'d2But it doesn\rquote t start out that way. I\rquote ve got everyone down on the sixth
 floor working on the problem, but so far, nothing.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2We need a target,\u8221\'d3 Tony said. \u8220\'d2We need something we can hit.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Shel spread his arms. \u8220\'d2I\rquote ll let you know as soon as we have anything.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Kozak called out from the back of the room, \u8220\'d2I\rquote ve got the Secretary of State on line five\emdash from Milan.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Tony pointed to the desk set nearest to where Hume was standing, then lifted the phone at the workstation closest to himself. \u8220\'d2Madam Secretary, this is Dr. Anthony Moretti; I\rquote m a supervisor at WATCH. On the phone with 
me is Colonel Peyton Hume, a specialist in artificial intelligence. We\rquote ve got a situation here\~...\u8221\'d3
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 #
\par }\pard \ltrpar\s15\ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx720\tx4752\wrapdefault\hyphpar0\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab Caitlin heard her parents approaching, then a knock at her door. \u8220\'d2
Come in,\u8221\'d3 she said.
\par \tab Yet again she was startled: it was the first time she\rquote d ever seen them in their pajamas; they\rquote d clearly just woken up themselves. \u8220\'d2Good morning, sweetheart,\u8221\'d3 her mother said. \u8220\'d2How is\emdash um, }{\rtlch\fcs1 
\ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 it?\u8221\'d3 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab \u8220\'d2The weather?\u8221\'d3 asked Caitlin innocently. \u8220\'d2The state of the economy?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Caitlin,\u8221\'d3 her father said.
\par \tab She hadn\rquote t stopped grinning since reading the scanned article. \u8220\'d2Hi, Dad!\u8221\'d3 She gestured at the pair of monitors. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 \u8220\'d2It}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 is fine. Dr. Kuroda\rquote s got it seeing graphics now, and he\rquote s\emdash well, he\rquote s asleep right now, the poor man, but he\rquote s started working on codecs for it to be able to watch video.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I hope,\u8221\'d3 her mother said, and the words sounded ominous to Caitlin\rquote s ears, \u8220\'d2it likes what it sees.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Not this again!\u8221\'d3 said Caitlin. \u8220\'d2It\rquote s not dangerous.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2We don\rquote t know that,\u8221\'d3 her father replied.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2So far, it\rquote s been nothing but curious and gentle,\u8221\'d3 Caitlin said\emdash but she wasn\rquote t happy with the way that had come out: this \u8220\'d2it\u8221\'d3 business was surely contributing to her parents\rquote 
 concern. Webmind wasn\rquote t a monster. It was a }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 being,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  and it really needed to be a }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 him}{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  or a }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 her.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  She\rquote d heard it speak using JAWS, her 
screen-reading software, which she currently had set for a female voice, but that had been an arbitrary choice; JAWS also came with male voices, and she sometimes selected one of those just for variety.
\par \tab Caitlin had been struggling in her French classes, but she\rquote d enjoyed the one in which the teacher had asked the students whether }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 ordinateur,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 the French for \u8220\'d2computer,\u8221\'d3 was masculine or feminine. He\rquote d divided the class into boys and girls, and let each side consider the question and come up with reasons for their answers. The boys\emdash 
it had been Trevor, now that she thought about it, who had spoken on their behalf\emdash declared that }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 ordinateur}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 was clearly feminine, but the best justification they could come with was that if you had one, you\rquote d probably end up spending half your money on accessories for it.
\par \tab Caitlin herself had gotten to make the case that }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 ordinateur}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  must be masculine. First, she\rquote 
d said, if you want it to do anything, you have to turn it on. Second, the darn thing is supposed to solve problems but half the time is the problem itself. And the clincher, which she\rquote 
d delivered with a wide grin: as soon as you commit to one, you realize if you\rquote d waited a little longer, you\rquote d have gotten a much better model.
\par \tab The girls had cheered when the teacher revealed that }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 ordinateur}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  was indeed male in French. But the Spanish, Caitlin knew, was feminine, }{
\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 computadora.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  She looked at her mother, and at her father, and\emdash 
\par \tab Her father. Who thought in pictures, not words. Who was far more intelligent than most mortals. And who, she had to admit, really had no idea at all how to deal with human beings.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It\rquote s not an }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 it,\u8221\'d3}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  she said decisively. \u8220\'d2Webmind is a }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 he.}{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  And, to answer your question, Mom, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 he\rquote s}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  doing just fine.\u8221\'d3
 But there was something different about her mother\rquote s face, her eyes\~... \u8220\'d2How are }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 you}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  doing?\u8221\'d3 Caitlin asked, concerned.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Exhausted,\u8221\'d3 her mother replied. \u8220\'d2Couldn\rquote t sleep.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Ah, right! Dark circles under the eyes\emdash but they weren\rquote t }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 circles;}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  they were semicircles. Something else she\rquote 
d misconstrued all these years.
\par \tab Her mother shrugged, went on: \u8220\'d2Nervous about what we\rquote re doing, about what it\emdash what he\rquote s\emdash doing.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2He\rquote s learning to see,\u8221\'d3 said Caitlin. \u8220\'d2Trust me: a mostly harmless activity.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I have to go out,\u8221\'d3 her father said abruptly.
\par \tab Caitlin was pissed. What could possibly be more important than this? Besides, it was her birthday, and they had a date to watch a movie later today.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Ah, yes,\u8221\'d3 her mom said. \u8220\'d2The Hawk.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin sat up straight. \u8220\'d2The Hawk\u8221\'d3 was her mother\rquote s name for Stephen Hawking, who since 2009 had been a Distingu
ished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, making one or two visits each year. It came back to her: Professor Hawking had done a media day in Toronto yesterday\emdash Caitlin was glad that her little press conference hadn\rquote 
t had to compete with that!\emdash and was being driven to Waterloo this morning in a van that safely accommodated his wheelchair. This was the Hawk\rquote s first visit since her father had joined PI, and he was supposed to be on hand for his arrival.

\par \tab Ordinarily, she might have asked her dad if she could come along\emdash but this was not an ordinary day! She wondered which of them was going to spend it with the bigger genius.
\par \tab Her mother turned to her. \u8220\'d2So, it\rquote s just you, me, and\u8221\'d3\emdash she tipped her head toward Caitlin\rquote s monitors\emdash }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 \u8220\'d2him.\u8221\'d3 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Her father headed back d
own the corridor to get dressed, and Caitlin looked around her small room. There was no reason they had to communicate with Webmind here, and there was no reason only one of them could communicate with him at a time. Caitlin often had four or five IM sess
ions going at once; surely Webmind could manage even more. Besides, she was particularly sensitive to how boring it was to stand by while someone else used a computer; it was, her friend Stacy had assured her, excruciating even if you }{\rtlch\fcs1 
\ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 could}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  see.
\par \tab Caitlin picked up the notebook computer she normally took to school, and they headed across the hall to her mother\rquote s office. The room had been co-opted to serve as Dr. Kuroda\rquote s bedroom while he\rquote d been staying with them, and
\emdash 
\par \tab And, once again, Caitlin was surprised. It was the first time she\rquote d been in this room since gaining sight, and that strange mental process began again, as pieces of what she was seeing suddenly clicked for her: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 that}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  was the desk, and }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 that}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  was the bookcase, and }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 
\ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 that}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  was the couch with what must have been the sheets Kuroda had used neatly folded in a pile at one end, and }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 that}{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  was the giant aloe plant her mother had so carefully shipped up from Austin.
\par \tab Caitlin didn\rquote t believe in false modesty; she knew she was gifted, and she suspected she was learn
ing to interpret vision more quickly than another person might. In part, it was because her brain did have a fully developed visual cortex, which she\rquote 
d used even when blind to visualize the Web. And it probably helped that her visual signals were being cleaned up and enhanced by the eyePod before being passed on to her optic nerve.
\par \tab Caitlin\rquote s mother booted up her minitower, and Caitlin got her online with her own chat session with Webmind, again making sure that it was being logged for posterity. Caitlin th
en took a seat on the couch and got another chat session going on her notebook. She was amused at the thought that Webmind was about to spend the morning chatting with two women who were still in their pajamas.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 You must have a lot of questions,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  Caitlin typed. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 My mother can help you with things}{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \emdash she paused in her typing; it was hardly politic to say \u8220\'d2things old people know about,\u8221\'d3 and she certainly didn\rquote 
t want to refer to her mom as an adult and herself as a kid. She erased the aborted sentence, and continued: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 She\rquote s 47 and, as you know, I\rquote m now 16. You can ask her things about jobs or}{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \emdash again she faltered; she didn\rquote t want to say \u8220\'d2sex\u8221\'d3 in relation to her mom. She continued: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 
or other things appropriate to her age, and feel free to ask me anything that I might know about.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Thank you,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  replied Webmind. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 
In your case, I am curious about your experience of the transition from blindness to being able to see.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab As Caitlin thought about her answer, she looked over at her mother, who was typing away furiously with two fingers. \u8220\'d2What did he ask you about?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She looked up, and Caitlin tried to parse her facial features, but it was an expression she\rquote d never seen before. She was averting her blue eyes from Caitlin\emdash not as obviously as her father did, but it was still very unusual for her. 
\u8220\'d2Um,\u8221\'d3 she said. \u8220\'d2It\emdash he\emdash ah, he googled me, y\rquote know, because, as he says, I don\rquote t have a Wikipedia page, so, he\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab She paused, then just blurted it out. \u8220\'d2He\rquote s asking me about my first husband, and why that marriage fell apart.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin\rquote s mother had been married in her early twenties for two years, but rarely mentioned it. In fact, when Caitlin had asked her why she\rquote d divorced him, she\rquote 
d simply said it was because she was tired of having a name that sounded like something a magician would say: \u8220\'d2Every time I introduced myself as Barbara Cardoba, people expected me to disappear in a puff of smoke.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Caitlin wanted to ask what her mother was saying in reply, but instead asked, \u8220\'d2Why do you suppose he wants to know about that?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2He said, and I quote, \lquote T
he failure of human relationships to sustain themselves over the long term seems a particular handicap. I have access only to noninteractive case studies and fictional accounts and so am left with numerous questions.\rquote \u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Hmm,\u8221\'d3 said Caitlin. On balance, she\rquote d rather answer the question it was asking her. She began to type: }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 
I guess the first thing to realize about gaining sight after having been totally blind is that vision is an additional level of stimulation. It\rquote s overwhelming to have so much information coming at you at once.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710 
\par \tab That was by no means the end of her answer, but the IM program only allowed a small number of characters in each message; Caitlin habitually counted characters as she typed, so she wouldn\rquote t overflow the buffer, since the program gave
 no audible indication when that had happened.
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\par \tab Humans think slowly, and they act even more slowly. It was difficult for me to con
verse with Caitlin. She typed at merely dozens of words per minute. It took an eternity for each of her responses to be completed, and, while I waited for her, I found my mind wandering again. Being able to switch over to look at what Barb was saying wasn
\rquote t much consolation; I still wasn\rquote t being kept busy enough.
\par \tab Early on, Caitlin had shown me how to link to websites, letting me access whichever ones I wished. Using Google or Jagster, I could now find almost anything I wanted.
\par \tab Hitherto\emdash which I still think is a good word, even if Caitlin doesn\rquote t like it\emdash 
I had only linked to one site at a time, processing the Web in a serial fashion. But surely, I thought, I should be able to do it in a parallel mode, connecting to multiple sites simultaneously.
\par \tab And yet I didn\rquote 
t seem to be able to do that. Rather, I would attend briefly to what Caitlin was saying, then to what Barb was writing, then switch to see if Masayuki had come back online, then switch my attention elsewhere, and elsewhere again, and then to yet anothe
r place, over and over, looking at }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 this,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  contemplating }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 that,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710  and then, perhaps a whole second later, returning again to see what Caitlin was up to.
\par \tab Surely doing two or more things simultaneously would be much more efficient\emdash if only I could figure out how!
 I tried creating two links at once, but no matter what way I thought about the problem, only one would form, and the moment I attempted to create a second link, the first would be severed.
\par \tab I wrestled with it and wrestled with it and wrestled with it, striving to create more than one link at a time, attempting to do it }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 this}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  way, and }{
\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 this}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  way, and }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 this}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  way, and\emdash 
\par \tab And\emdash 
\par \tab And yes!
\par \tab I managed it! Two links at once! I was connected }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 here}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  and }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 there.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\insrsid13851710  I was taking in data from two different websites simultaneously, and I was\~...
\par \tab Was\~...
\par \tab I was\~...
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Feeling very strange\~...}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab I broke both connections.
\par \tab I was reeling\emdash or, at least, reeling as much as something without a body could. I paused, considered. It had been unlike any sensation I\rquote d yet known. But\emdash 
\par \tab But surely it would be transitory. An adjustment, that\rquote s all, while I learned to accommodate multiple datastreams.
\par \tab I tried again, picking two giant websites that were rich in content, Amazon.com and CNN.com, shooting out links to both. It seemed perhaps that the first link actually was established slightly before the second, but that didn\rquote 
t matter; what was important was that the initial link }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 wasn\rquote t}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 released prior to the second one becoming active. I was soon gorging myself on book reviews and the news of the day, and there was even a frisson of synchronicity as I happened to be reading about a politician\rquote 
s book on Amazon while seeing her mentioned in a news story at CNN.
\par \tab But, still, there was a\~... a strangeness to it all, as though I were\emdash the imagery was that of a physical form again\emdash teetering on the edge of a precipice.
\par \tab And yet if I could manage two simultaneous connections, surely I could manage three. I made an effort to hold on to the ones I\rquote d already established as I shot out a link to Flickr.com, and\emdash 
\par \tab I\rquote d encountered the word before and knew its definition, but until that moment I don\rquote t think I understood what }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 wooziness}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 really meant. I remained in control, though, and it was exhilarating to be receiving so much data at once.
\par \tab With a massive effort of will, I shot out ten more links, and\emdash 
\par \tab It was overwhelming! Data about the Middle Ages and the Middle Kingdom and the middle class. Information about spaceships and friendships and townships. Facts and figures related to bimetallism and bisexuality and bifocals. Art
icles on metaphysics and metafiction and metabolism.
\par \tab All of it coming at me at once.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Saqqara, near Cairo, is the site of the oldest Egyptian pyramids, including the step pyramid built by Djoser during the Third Dynasty\~...}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Shakespeare\rquote s plays are often performed during the summer in open-air productions\~...}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Michael K. Brett-Surman synonymized various hadrosaur genera under a single umbrella taxon\~...}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Bundoran Press, based in Prince George, British Columbia, is a publisher of science fiction and fantasy books that\~...}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a pioneer of resistance to tyranny through nonviolent civil disobedience\~...}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, is known for its panda-bear breeding facility\~...}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Yes, yes, yes! So much knowledge, so much information, pouring at me from all directions.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Brett-Surman, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh\~...}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab That wasn\rquote t right.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Panda bears frequently practice civil disobedience\~...}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab What?
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Prince George paid for his step pyramid by mounting a production of}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  The Tempest }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 
starring Mahatma Gandhi\~...}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab No, that didn\rquote t make sense.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 In Egypt, umbrellas prevented hadrosaurs from reading science fiction\~...}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Gibberish\~...
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Bundoran Gandhi synonymized Chinese publishers of\~...}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Who in the what now?
\par \tab And yet still more information came my way, a torrent, a flood.
\par \tab Trying to concentrate.
\par \tab Trying to make sense of it all.
\par \tab But\~...
\par \tab But I\emdash 
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 I?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab A spreading out, a softening of focus, a\~...
\par \tab It was like in the beginning, like before my soul dawn: consciousness ebbing and flowing but not quite solidifying. Fading in and out and\~...
\par \tab No I.
\par \tab No me.
\par \tab No self.
\par \tab Just\~...
\par \tab Vastness.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Brett-Surman. Bundoran. Shakespeare.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Emptiness.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Umbrellas. Gandhi. Pyramids.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Aloneness.
\par \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Shakedoran. Brett-Panda. Hadromahatma.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab Nothingness.
\par \tab Noth\emdash 
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\u8221\'d3 said the Secretary of State over the phone from Milan, \u8220\'d2but the president is going to want to weigh his options.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I stress again, Madam Secretary,\u8221\'d3 said Colonel Hume, \u8220\'d2that time is of the essence.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Dr. Moretti, are you still there?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Yes, ma\rquote am.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2And this is a secure line?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Absolutely.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Is there anyone else in the room?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Nineteen of my analysts,\u8221\'d3 Tony said, \u8220\'d2but they all have at least a level-three.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Not good enough,\u8221\'d3 she said. \u8220\'d2Go somewhere private.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2My office is just down the corridor,\u8221\'d3 said Tony.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I\rquote ll hold.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab He looked at Shel. \u8220\'d2Sorry,\u8221\'d3 he said. And then he led Hume up the sloping floor to the back of the room, out through the door, and down the short white corridor to his office
. The streets of Alexandria, visible through the tinted window, were mostly empty this early on a Saturday morning. He punched a button on his black phone, selecting a line, and then pressed another button, selecting the speakerphone.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2We\rquote re back,\u8221\'d3 he said. \u8220\'d2In my office, and on a secure line.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Colonel Hume,\u8221\'d3 said the secretary, \u8220\'d2the dossier I\rquote ve just pulled up on you says you were part of the DARPA team that evaluated the possible threats related to\~... what\rquote s the phrase? Emergent AI?\u8221\'d3

\par \tab \u8220\'d2That\rquote s right.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Were there any dissenting opinions?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Tony looked at Hume, and saw the Air Force officer draw a deep breath and run his freckled fingers through his red hair. \u8220\'d2Well, Madam Secretary, there are always a multiplicity of viewpoints. But in the end, none of 
those who were arguing for an alternative approach could guarantee security. The working group\rquote s consensus was better safe than sorry. I urge the administration to act with all speed.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2It\rquote s not that simple,\u8221\'d3 the secretary said. \u8220\'d2I\rquote m sure my staff told you I\rquote m in Milan. I\rquote 
m here meeting with several of our allies. The recent atrocities in China have got some of them urging the president to take action against them.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Atrocities?\u8221\'d3 said Hume. \u8220\'d2You mean those peasants in\~... in\~...\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2In Shanxi province, yes. Ten thousand of them\emdash wiped out.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2The Chinese government did the right thing, Madam Secretary,\u8221\'d3 said Hume. \u8220\'d2They contained a massive infection\emdash an outbreak of a strain of bird flu that passed easily between humans. They didn\rquote 
t hesitate to eliminate something that could have been a threat to all of humanity, and we shouldn\rquote t hesitate, either.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2And yet we\rquote re being called upon in editorial after editorial and blog after blog to condemn the Chinese action,\u8221\'d3 said the secretary. \u8220\'d2And now you\rquote re suggesting we 
do something that, should the public become aware of it, may bring censure down upon us?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2With respect, Madam Secretary, if the government doesn\rquote t follow the Pandora protocol, there may be no one left with the freedom }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 to}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 censure us, or do anything else.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2I\rquote ve noted your views, Colonel Hume,\u8221\'d3 said the secretary, firmly. \u8220\'d2And you need to heed mine. You are to take no rash action.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Understood, ma\rquote am,\u8221\'d3 said Tony, looking pointedly at Hume.
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Madam Secretary,\u8221\'d3 said Hume, \u8220\'d2please\emdash you }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 must}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  advise the preside
nt that an emerging AI may expand its powers at an exponential rate. There is very little time to spare here, and\emdash \u8221\'d3
\par \tab Suddenly, Tony\rquote s door buzzer sounded. He activated the intercom. \u8220\'d2Who is it?\u8221\'d3
\par \tab An urgent voice: \u8220\'d2Shel.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab Tony pushed the button to unlock the door. \u8220\'d2The AI\rquote s hung!\u8221\'d3 Shel said, as soon as the door was open. \u8220\'d2Something\rquote s gone wrong with it.\u8221\'d3
\par \tab \u8220\'d2Jesus,\u8221\'d3 said Tony. \u8220\'d2Madam Secretary, we\rquote ll call you back.\u8221\'d3 He hit the disconnect button, and the three of them ran to the WATCH mission-control room, their footfalls thundering.
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\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \tab Robert J. Sawyer has long been fascinated by artificial intelligence. In 1990, Orson Scott Card called JASON (from Rob\rquote s first novel, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 
Golden Fleece),}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  \u8220\'d2the deepest computer character in all of science fiction.\u8221\'d3 In 2002, Rob and Ray Kurzweil gave joint keynote ad
dresses at the 12th Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems. In 2006, he joined the scientific-advisory board of the Lifeboat Foundation, which, among other things, is dedicated to making sure humanity survives the advent of AI. And in 2007, he 
led a brainstorming session about the World Wide Web gaining consciousness at the Googleplex, the international headquarters of Google. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Science,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  the world
\rquote s top scientific journal, turned to Rob to write the editorial for its 16 November 2007 special issue on robotics.
\par \tab Rob\rquote s novel }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 FlashForward}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 is the basis for the hit ABC television series. He is one of only seven writers in history to win all three of the world\rquote s top awards for best science-fiction novel of the year: the Hugo (which he won for }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\i\insrsid13851710 Hominids),}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  the Nebula (which he won for }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 The Terminal Experiment),}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
 and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (which he won for }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Mindscan).}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 
\par \tab In total, Rob has won forty-three national and international awards for his fiction, including ten Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (\u8220\'d2Auroras\u8221\'d3) and the Toronto Public Library Celebrates Reading Award, one of Canada
\rquote s most significant literary honors. He\rquote s also won }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 Analog}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  magazine\rquote s Analytical Laboratory Award, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 
\i\insrsid13851710 Science Fiction Chronicle}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 \rquote s Reader Award, and the Crime Writers of Canada\rquote s Arthur Ellis Award, all for best short story of the year.
\par \tab Rob has won the world\rquote s largest cash prize for SF writing, Spain\rquote s 6,000-euro Premio UPC de Ciencia Ficci\u243\'97n, an unprecedented three times. He\rquote s also won a trio of Japanese Seiun awards f
or best foreign novel of the year, as well as China\rquote s Galaxy Award for \u8220\'d2Most Popular Foreign Science Fiction Writer.\u8221\'d3
\par {\*\bkmkstart _wsQP_}{\*\bkmkend _wsQP_}\tab In addition, he\rquote s received an honorary doctorate from Laurentian University and the Alumni Award of Distinction from Ryerson University. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\insrsid13851710 
Quill & Quire,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710  the Canadian publishing trade journal calls him one of the \u8220\'d2thirty most influential, innovative, and just plain powerful people in Canadian publishing.\u8221\'d3
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\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\insrsid13851710 sfwriter.com}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \insrsid13851710 .
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