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Erica J. Kingdom

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The Almighty Code

Submitted to Contest #72

1 The End Of Society  The algorithm knows everything that happens. It knows when babies are born, it knows what genes they have, how they'll behave. It knows their motivations, intentions before it can even take its first breath. Long ago, the philosopher John Locke proposed Tabula Rasa - but that notion of the so-called blank slate has been eradicated by the algorithm, created at the collapse of society.  It is told to the youth that:  "A man dressed in sinful, blood-drenched white screamed, then he watched the world bl...

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