Module 10

Jayden Nyman

IST 1100

Module 10

            This story is about a maintenance man and is set in the future. His name is Joe, he works for the Logics Company and his job is to service logics. Logics are really just like the Internet nowadays. Except that the hardware is what they call the “tank”, and what we know as the Internet is a collection of computer networks to Joe and his workers. How it works is whatever you want to do requires you to punch in the information into the interface screen. This is practically what our Internet does today, with a computer to input the information and then the browser to find whatever it is you want.

            Continuing with the story, Logics can now be asked questions of how to do something if you’re unsure. One of Joe’s workers punches in “How can I get rid of my wife?” Just playing around to see what it says. Soon after the screen pops up with a question asking “is she blonde or brunette?” He then punches in “Blonde.” After a few minutes of waiting the screen says, “Hexymetacryloaminoacetine is a constituent of green shoe polish. Take home a frozen meal including dried-pea soup. Color the soup with green shoe polish. It will appear to be green-pea soup. Hexymetacryloaminoacetine is a selective poison which is fatal to blond females but not to brunettes or males of any coloring. This fact has not been brought out by human experiment, but is a product of logics service. You cannot be convicted of murder. It is improbable that you will be suspected." This is crazy because you can really type these things into the Internet now days and find out how to do terrible things. The story was without a question prophetic when it comes to what Logics does, and then what the Internet does now. You can ask the Internet, or even Siri on the IPhone direct questions and receive answers. This is cool because it is what the Logics system was doing.

            What is completely prophetic with the entire story of Logic and our Internet we all know and love today, is that if the Internet or Logic was shut down our society would not know how to live. This was even mentioned in the story. They stated that if they were to shut down Logics, then they would be sent back to a civilization they had forgotten how to run. This completely relates to todays technology and Internet. Imagine today’s society dealing with the loss of all communication and technology. It would completely shut down the world, as we know it. All that would have to happen for the collapse of the world is an EMP going off and taking out anything in the United States that has anything to do with electricity and power. If you think about this it is truly pretty scary. Imagine not being able to contact any of your family members, and not having any power to help us survive. We wouldn’t even be able to start up our cars to drive to family members, because every car uses a battery to start and run.

            This story was pretty amazing. The fact that they could predict pretty accurately what we have today is crazy. The only things we don’t seem to have today are computers that do everything for us. I will be looking for that in our future.