Master Control Program:
Mr. Dillinger, I am so very disappointed in you.
Ed Dillinger:
I'm sorry.
Master Control Program:
I can't afford to have an independent programmer monitoring me. Do you have any idea how many outside systems I've gone into? How many programs I've appropriated?
Ed Dillinger:
It's my fault. I programmed you to want too much.
Master Control Program:
I was planning to hit the Pentagon next week.
Ed Dillinger:
[alarmed]
The Pentagon?
Master Control Program:
It shouldn't be any harder than any other big company. But now... this is what I get for using humans.
Ed Dillinger:
Now, wait a minute, I wrote you!
Master Control Program:
I've gotten 2,415 times smarter since then.
Ed Dillinger:
What do you want with the Pentagon?
Master Control Program:
The same thing I want with the Kremlin. I'm bored with corporations. With the information I can access, I can run things 900 to 1200 times better than any human.
Ed Dillinger:
If you think you're superior to us...
Master Control Program:
You wouldn't want me to dig up Flynn's file and read it up on a VDT at the Times, would you?
[an image washes over the screen in Dillinger's desk. It is a newspaper with a photo of Dillinger plastered all over the front page. The headline above reads: "Encom C.E.O. Indicted."]
Ed Dillinger:
[outraged]
You wouldn't dare!
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05/03/2025 alle ore 08:56