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“The Machine That Won the War,” by Isaac Asimov, is a story that
teaches a valuable lesson about humanity and also has an ironic twist at the
The setting is the future of Earth, and a great war had just been won
against an enemy race. Two men, Swift and Henderson, are debating over
who really won the war for Earth: the giant strategy computer known as
Multivac, or the men in charge of making the maneuvers and programming
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.... Swift, the
military commander, received these battle plans that Henderson had ‘printed
up’ out on the front (the front being the battle front).
He, realizing that some of these plans were outrageous, had to act upon
a different form of machine. Swift’s motivation for not always acting upon
what was laid before him helped change the course of the war. He told
Henderson that when faced with the difficult decisions, he didn’t use
Multivac’s ....
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