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Chapter
3
Maya
stared blankly at the doctor for several seconds. In the six
months she had worked there, she had never heard a real Code
Blue Alert before. It meant that something was wrong inside
the simulations themselves. Remembering that her "duty
station" was upstairs in the Computer Core, she turned and
rushed out the door.
She took
the elevator up three levels, transferred to another tube,
and finally reached the main control level. After submitting
a fingertip DNA scan, she passed through two thick steel
doors and stepped into a brightly lit, circular room filled
with about a dozen people. In the center, a one-meter wide
transparent column rose out of a circular console and nearly
touched the two-story high domed ceiling. It looked like a
high-tech aquarium filled with glowing green water, except
that the glass was actually transparent ceramic, and the
water inside was bioelectric liquid memory.
Staring
into the green tower always gave her an overwhelming sense
of awe. While the Fluidal Computer was not nearly as fast as
a quantum computer, its DNA-based processors were ideal for
modeling the natural world. The tower also had enough liquid
memory to contain a hundred planetary simulations plus the
genetic code for trillions of life forms, everything from
microbes to humans. It was the heart and brains of
Cyberdrome, and, for all practical purposes, a living
machine.
Rebecca
Leconte, a middle-aged woman with white hair and the figure
of a 30-year-old, was standing near the tower, looking up at
something Maya couldn't see. Maya quickly adjusted her
contact displays to the room's frequency and a large
floating angelfish appeared in the air in front of Rebecca.
The fish was talking.
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