Multivac, Moore and more - Views - livemint.com: "When I was growing up in the Deccan—a land of black soil, a black magic called bhanamati and great backwardness—my dreams invariably revolved around a globe-girdling computer called Multivac.
Through sweltering summer days and nights without electricity in the late 1970s, I immersed myself in the fantastic world created by the great science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov, who wrote many stories of a world run by a sentient supercomputer. Multivac lay buried deep underground, controlled all human existence (tired of its burdens, it once planned its own demise), struggled to understand jokes, and even ran the democratic vote by choosing one person to represent the entire electorate of the US.
It all seemed so faraway, so otherworldly, so impossible."
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