{"id":4956,"date":"2009-12-29T12:14:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=4956"},"modified":"2009-12-29T12:14:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T16:14:18","slug":"neil-fraser-google-multivac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2009\/12\/29\/neil-fraser-google-multivac\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Fraser: Google = Multivac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1958 Isaac Asimov wrote a short story titled &quot;All the Troubles of the World&quot; (included in the collection &quot;Nine Tomorrows&quot;). It described a world transformed by Multivac, a giant all-knowing computer. Asimov died in 1992, a mere four years before Larry and Sergey started their project &quot;to organize the world&#8217;s information and make it universally accessible and useful.&quot; Below are selected quotes from Asimov&#8217;s story (no spoilers), next to relevant imagery from Google.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/neil.fraser.name\/news\/2009\/12\/29\/'>Neil Fraser: News: Google Multivac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1958 Isaac Asimov wrote a short story titled &quot;All the Troubles of the World&quot; (included in the collection &quot;Nine Tomorrows&quot;). It described a world transformed by Multivac, a giant all-knowing computer. Asimov died in 1992, a mere four years before Larry and Sergey started their project &quot;to organize the world&#8217;s information and make it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2009\/12\/29\/neil-fraser-google-multivac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Neil Fraser: Google = Multivac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}