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The Feeling of Power
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First published in IF (February 1958 issue), by Isaac Asimov, is a Science Fiction Short Story about the Lost Technology of mathematics. Due to society's dependence on computers, the ability of one lowly technician to recreate basic mathematics is seen as a way to break the stalemate in the war against Deneb.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Technician Aub has a hobby; he likes to figure out how the computers he fixes think. From studying the older models, he's deduced arithmetic and multiplicative calculations. Programmer-first-class Jehan Shuman discovered that talent, and now he's being shown around to Generals and Heads of congressional committees. Nervously, he explains graphitics (calculation without a calculator) to them.This "hobby" is introduced to world leaders, turned into a top-secret government project, and gone far beyond what the lowly technician ever wanted from it. Project Numbers has people trying to learn enough of the system to pilot missiles and break through the Denebian computerized anti-missile protection. Aub chooses to kill himself rather than support this violent use of graphitics. But it is too late; enough other people can use the same science, and the technology will continue. Shuman reflects that knowing graphitics gives him a feeling of power.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Outside of the original Pulp Magazine, this story has been reprinted several times, and Isaac Asimov has included it in six of his collections; Nine Tomorrows (1959), Opus 100 (1969), The Edge Of Tomorrow (1985), The Best Science Fiction Of Isaac Asimov (1986), Robot Dreams (1986), and The Complete Stories, Volume 1 (1990). | |
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Book-Ends: The first math problem is given by Programmer Shuman to Technician Aub, who recites nine times seven is sixty-three. The last problem is given by Programmer Shuman to himself, after the death of Technician Aub, and he recites nine times seven is sixty-three. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: This story is set so far into the future, Faster-Than-Light Travel is an Implied Trope and Earth has lost the ability to do Mathematics without a computer. Computers, when this story was written, were always large, bulky things, but Isaac Asimov predicted people would carry around pocket computers. | |
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