Will Artificial Intelligence Surpass Our Own?

"Answer," published in 1954, encapsulated a prescient meditation on the future of human-machine relations within a single double-spaced, typewritten page. "Answer" begins under the watchful eyes of a dozen television cameras that are recording the ceremonial soldering of the final connection to tie together all the "monster" computers in the universe. The machines are about to link 96 billion planets into a single "supercircuit" that combines "all the knowledge of all the galaxies." Two witnesses on the scene are identified only as Dwar Ev and Dwar Reyn. "Thank you," said Dwar Reyn.