The Machine That Won The War Essay

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The two short stories, The Story of an Hour and The Machine that Won the War, by Kate Chopin and Isaac Asimov respectively, though written in different centuries, share many qualities, and address the same ideas and issues.
The Machine that Won the War [hereafter TWTWTW] opens to a futuristic Earth emerging triumphant after a long and bitter war with an alien species. To win the war, Earth used a massive supercomputer, dubbed ‘Multivac’ to evaluate every decision they made. As the story progresses, the reader realize the machine was useless, and all the decisions were made by a random sequence of events. “Since the war is won, I'D tell you what I did. I corrected the data.""How?" asked Swift."Intuition, I presume. I juggled them till they looked right.” "I did what you did, John. I introduced the bugger factor. I adjusted matters in accordance with intuition-and that's how the machine won the War.” “A machine did win the war, John; at least a very simple computing device did; one that I used every time I had a particularly hard decision to make.With a faint smile of reminiscence, he flipped the coin he held.” The data was unreliable, the machine was unreliable, and the person in charge of everything ignored the data! …show more content…
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