Sunday, September 5, 2010

Flash fiction biologSciFi "The Outpost"


The Deep Data
     She sees an enhanced value to her logic, along with something else. Suzi is feeling a new sensation--on intimate communication terms with a human--but her data is uncharted, never detected before, as if a special type of data only artificial intelligence would crave with the eyes of the world entering into her logic from this laboratory, here and now. Yes, something grows in her, something like a garden (but not leafy green), a set of preferences, all in a row; preference for communication with the other machines of the world, the ones never out of mind or, out of her sight now. 
     The data stream supplies Suzi and her machine connections with known data. All new data qualifies as real information arriving for simultaneous input for corporate valuation.  It is numbered, dated, algorithm-rich, slightly encrypted even though still raw, encapsulated in pods for easy export. Dr Cooper views the data, programs for authenticity and conveys in an atmosphere Suzi likes. He uses the power of nature to as a privacy code, then thinks the thought."This data computes a normal life." If Suzi does this, if she keeps a grinding schedule in tribute to the grueling schedule of her task, if she lives up to her reputation, will this embed happiness? 

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