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All-powerful Computer: Potential applications of the computer made possible by microelectronics include a small computer in every home or a pocket computer terminal that can be connected to a powerful central computer via the telephone. Such devices may be used to solve our numerical problems (e.g., income tax, or our bank balance) or as a creative tool to relate our knowledge and experiences to our future actions.
But Johannesson is not primarily a science fiction writer; he is, under his pseudonymous mask, a well-known Swedish astronomer. He is moderate in his writing, whereas Harlan Ellison, one of the angriest of the current crop of angry young science fiction writers, is not. In his 1967 short story, "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream," Ellison's man of the future also succumbs—and all but disappears—in the face of the all-powerful computer. A few humans are kept alive, however, so that the computer may ingeniously and endlessly torture them for its own amusement.
And what of the computer? Olof Johannesson's 1966 novel, The Tale of the Big Computer (which first appeared in an American edition in 1968), offers a history of the development of computers as told by an advanced computer of the future. In an unemotional, utterly convincing essay, it describes the gradual obsolescence and disappearance of its creator, man.
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