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OUR NATIONAL HERITAGE LIVES ON IN DAKOTA

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April, 2031 Vol. 6, No. 3

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Down And Out in Dakota? “Not So!” Says Governor Rowe. For many of us, Mount Rushmore is a daily sight as we drive to work or school. Each glimpse of this great monument re- news our national pride and sense of his- tory. What better setting, therefore, for this month’s interview with Governor Rowe. Despite nationwide problems with crime, unemployment and juvenile depravity, Rowe maintains that the qual- ity of life is high here in the heartland of North America. “For nearly two hundred years,” says the Governor, “we’ve provided the country with nourishing crops and citi- zens of high moral fiber. We believe in God and country here in Dakota, and the rest of the nation could benefit from a “Of all our favorite spots in South Dakota, Governor Rowe admits that he feels most sentimental about return to these values.” Mount Rushmore.”

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A Mind Forever Voyaging

Perry Simm was four years old when he became lost in the largest department store in the city. He let go of Mother’s hand to pick up the video cube. He rotated it with wonderment, touching the control knobs and squealing with delight as the images shifted…

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His brother Clave, Perry’s senior After an endless time, during Gold was saying, “when I say what by three years, bounced impatiently which a lot of strangers had asked a a tremendous honor and pleasure it in the aisle. “Mom,” he whined, lot of questions which he’d been too is that you could attend today.” “they’re going to be sold out of the confused or too frightened to an- “Pass me a barf bag,” whispered new Skydiver disc, and you prom- swer, he found himself in a small, Perelman to Randu. ised I could get one.” quiet room. The door opened, and “You underrate the importance of “Be patient, Clave,” admonished Mother came in, scooping him up this Project, Ms. Gold. The Presi- Mother, but across the floor she into her arms. He cried again, bury- dent and many other important peo- could see long lines at the Simula- ing his face into the warmth of her ple have a keen interest in this tion Discs counter. There were stops loving embrace. experiment. As you know, it’s quite at the Foodville and the O-Link re- an uphill battle against public opin- ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ pair shop still to go. She made a ion if we're to deter Senator Ryder hasty decision. Abraham Perelman and Aseejh and his Plan.” “Perry, Clave and I are going to Randu waited in the plush Main The retinue had almost reached another department. I want you to Conference Room overlooking the Perelman and Randu. Vera said, “I wait right here until we get back.” Control Center. Through the win- hope we can live up to your expecta- “Okay,” he said, without looking dow-wall, Perelman could see doz- tions. And now, despite all your up from the cube. ens of technicians, busily preparing wonderful compliments, I really A few minutes later, Perry discov- for today’s big event. For the ump- must share some of the credit with ered the selector panel, but while teenth time he felt thankful to have these gentlemen here, Dr. Abraham trying to open it he dropped the cube such a superb, competent team. It Perelman and Dr. Aseejh Randu. I onto the hard plasticrete floor. The was a far cry from the early days, don’t want to bore you with technical six screens flashed brightly and then when he had to keep on top of every details, but basically Dr. Randu is faded to darkness. detail. our hardware man and Dr. Perelman Perry became frightened and Perelman glanced over toward is our software man.” looked around for Mother. She was Randu, and noticed his friend’s ner- As the Vice-President shook their nowhere in sight. Fear of discovery vousness. “Don’t worry, Aseejh, it’s hands warmly, Perelman fumed at and punishment welled up inside no big deal. I met him once before, Gold’s demeaning description. It him, and in his desire to get away at a social affair in Washington, and was THEY who had started the from the broken cube he forgot he’s an easygoing guy.” Project, THEY who had... about the order to stay put. He wan- “Yes, I have heard that.” A smile “We’ve met before, Dr. dered to the end of the aisle, and tugged at the comers of the Indian’s Perelman, haven't we?” the Vice- spotted Mother a short distance normally stony face. “But after President was asking. away, rummaging through a bin of speaking with Vera, he could very Perelman nodded. “At an NESR myalon vests. As he ran toward her, well be whipped into a frenzy!” banquet two years ago.” he realized that it was just a stranger Vera Gold was the Chief Adminis- “I remember it well. I think we with only a vague resemblance to trator of the Project. discussed baseball standings. Later, Mother. Fighting back tears, he de- “Nonsense,” Perelman scoffed. I learned that you were an expert in cided to return to the spot where the “She’ll turn on the charm for him. AI. Perhaps I can make up for my broken cube lay. She saves her venom for underlings ignorance then by asking you to give He wandered down the aisles, each like us.” me a brief overview now. I find the lined with tall shelves of glittering “True,” agreed Randu. “By now, entire field fascinating.” merchandise, and after several con- she has probably taken credit for the “It would be my pleasure, Mr. fused minutes discovered that he entire project, to say nothing of the Vice-President,” Perelman re- was completely lost. He had no idea inventions of molecular memory and sponded. He grinned to himself as how to find Mother, and he had no the artificial heart.” he noticed Gold giving him one of idea how to find the spot where he A door opened at the far end of her best “keep in your place” had last seen her. He was alone, the long room, and a few Secret glares. “I think we really ought to abandoned. Strangers, huge and Service agents walked in, followed begin the tour…” Gold insinuated. terrifying, jostled past. Walls of by the Vice-president, Vera Gold, Perelman turned to Gold, smiling boxed appliances towered above several aides, and more Secret Ser- sweetly. “I’m sure I can answer the him. Fear and despair won the battle vice agents. Vice-President’s request as we go.” for his emotions, and he began to cry. “...speak for the entire staff,” Turning back to their guest, he said

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“Did you know that the first serious tallest of the three. “Where’d you voice, and as Perry began to wipe work in artificial intelligence was get it?” away his tears he saw that the man done around the middle of the twen- “Grandma,” replied Perry, con- had a friendly face as well. He was tieth century?” fused by their amusement. carrying Perry’s hat in one hand, “Hey,” one of the older boys and a hefty pile of books in the other ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ shouted over Perry’s head, “look at hand. Perry Simm was six years old Grandma’s boy here, wearing a hat “Perry,” he answered, still when he was bullied on his first day in September!” sniffling a bit. of elementary school. “What are you going to wear in “Well, Perry, everything’s okay So far, it had been a day of December, runt, a spacesuit?!” now. Why don’t you come in, and strange, confusing images: Mother The boys laughed again, and we'll see if we can’t fix you up with and Father waving goodbye as he Perry began to get a funny feeling some milk and cookies.” boarded the huge yellow ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ bus, the older children with badges herding everyone The Vice-President down the long hallways lined “ cientists were glanced at the rows of data with colorful nubbly tiles, banks in the Simulation Con- the friendly Ms. Borne writ- still distant troller area, and turned back ing her name on the white- to Perelman. “Please go on. board, the boxes of Your history lesson on AI is brand-new crayons, the from that fascinating.” frightening hugeness of the Perelman took a deep school auditorium. almost mystical breath. “Ummm...A major Perry was cutting shapes breakthrough in the field out of colored construction goal . . . a thinking came with the realization paper when a funny sound that the computer and the filled the room, and Ms. human mind worked in fun- Borne told everyone that it machine!” damentally different ways. was time to go home. He Computers stored and ana- barely remembered to grab lyzed data numerically, his lunchbox, the brand-new one deep in his chest. while the human mind stored and with the pony pictures all over it, “And look at this lunchbox!” said analyzed data symbolically. and the red hat that Grandma had the third of the boys. “What pretty “You see, computers generally knitted. Then, confusion in the hall- ponies, huh?” solve problems using algorithms, ways again. One of the older chil- “Hey, Grandma’s boy, do you like rigorous step-by-step procedures dren with a badge, who Perry had ponies?” that are usually mathematical in learned were called Monitors, asked The tallest boy suddenly reached nature. For example, a program to him for his bus route number. out and grabbed Perry’s hat. play the card game Poker would “Seven,” he said, confidently. Mother “What’ll Grandma say if you come calculate the odds for all possible had drilled the number into him. home without your hat, huh?” hands in the current game before Soon Perry was standing on the “Gimme that,” shouted Perry, making a bet. A person in the same sidewalk with a group of other chil- tears beginning to spill down his situation couldn’t possibly consider dren. He looked around, but didn’t face. every possible combination of cards, see anyone from his class. Everyone “Look, the runt’s a crybaby! The and would have to make a decision seemed to be older and bigger than runt's a crybaby!” based on such factors as experience, Perry. Slowly he realized that some- Suddenly, through the tears, judgment, intuition, and rules-of- one from behind was talking to him. Perry became aware of a grown-up thumb. This is called the heuristic “Hey! Hey, you with the red hat!” standing between him and his tor- method of problem-solving.” Perry turned around, and found mentors, speaking sternly. A mo- The tour reached the long tunnel himself facing three older boys. Two ment later, the man was leading leading to the office wing of the of them were wearing Monitor Perry away down the street. complex. The Vice-President pre- badges. “What’s your name, little fella?” ceded Perelman onto the moving “That's a great hat, runt,” said the asked the man. He had a friendly walkway.

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“By developing methods for com- “Yum as always, Aunt Frita!” And with ‘A Child's Vision’ I imag- puters to solve problems heuristi- said Perry, licking the last crumbs ined the President reading it as I cally,” Perelman continued, “the off the plate. “You ought to have a wrote each word.” He tapped the pioneers in Artificial Intelligence piece, Uncle Rav.” manuscript is his hand. “When I soon had developed programs that Rav and Frita weren’t really Per- wrote this, you were my mental imitated human problem-solving in ry’s aunt and uncle, but he’d been audience.” very specific areas, such as playing calling them that ever since that day, An hour later, Perry lay on his chess, diagnosing diseases, or trans- years earlier, when Rav had rescued bed and picked up the first sheet of lating text from one human language him from a gang of bullies on his the manuscript with trembling to another. These ‘expert systems,’ first day of school. Almost every hands. The pages seemed to vibrate as they were known, were superb day, he would stop by on the way with magic, and as he began read- within their area of expertise, and in home from school for some of Fri- ing, the magic flowed out of the many cases even improved themsel- ta’s home-made croissants and jam, story and surrounded him. His bed- ves by ‘learning’—adding knowl- or angelcakes, or pudding. room vanished in a haze of images edge based on their own Rav was a writer, and he was fond and excitement. A brief moment and experience.” of saying, “A writer must be, first an eternity later, the story was done, “The political fund-raising tele- and foremost, a reader.” He was but before the world around him computer we use works in that way,” always giving Perry books to read, quite settled back into place, Perry commented the Vice-President. and discussing them with Perry af- knew that, more than anything else, “A good example! These expert terwards. Perry was easily the best he wanted to be a writer. systems grew progressively broader reader in his grade; in fact, he was ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ and more sophisticated, impres- probably the best student overall. sively mimicking human learning “So what did you think of “In the middle of the 1990’s, and behavior. But!” said Perelman, ‘Lasernight’?” asked Rav, resting work began in earnest to create true pausing for dramatic emphasis, his hand on the thin volume. machine intelligence. The same “That is precisely ALL they could “It was great! Definitely one of methodology was used by several do...mimic! The spark of intelli- the boffest books you've ever given groups, most notably the group at gence was missing. Scientists in the me. I read the dragonhunt part three MIT and Japan’s ZOSO Project.” AI field were still distant from that times!” Perelman’s throat felt dry. He almost mystical goal of creating a “The dragonhunt chapter is clas- wondered if he was being long- computer that could act creatively, sic,” agreed Rav. winded, but the Vice-President that would be aware of its own exis- Perry furrowed his eyebrows seemed quite attentive. tence, that would truly be a thinking slightly. “It still feels funny to read “That methodology was as simple machine!” without any pictures, but I think I’m in theory as it was complex in prac- getting more used to it. Do you have tice: Design a computer with the ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ anything for me today?” capacity of a human brain, that Perry Simm was ten years old “Well, I’ve got something special stores and processes information when he decided that he wanted to be to give you today, if you’re inter- just like a human brain. Then pro- a writer. ested.” He reached into his pocket gram that computer with all the It was a warm day, probably the and unrolled a sheaf of paper. “It’s knowledge and experience that a warmest so far this spring, so they something I’ve just written; you’ll human would absorb from birth to were sitting on the kitchen veranda, be the first person to ever read it.” maturity. You’d end up with some- overlooking Rav and Frita’s beauti- Perry bounced in his chair with thing that was an exact replica of a ful wooded backyard. A skycar excitement. “Wow! I’ve never read human mind, and would therefore, whizzed over the woods, shattering anything you wrote before!” like humans, be sentient. the peacefulness of the afternoon. “Everything I’ve ever written up “These groups proceeded to build “I hate skycars,” said Perry. to now was meant for adults. But huge, highly-interconnective, ran- “They’ve just about finished in- this…” Rav paused, organizing his dom-driven, symbol-oriented ma- stalling an auto-controller system thoughts. “Whenever I write, I have chines, and programmed them, in for the whole city,” said Frita, “and an image in my mind of whom I’m excruciating detail, with every bit of when that’s done they say that sky- writing for. When I wrote the collec- knowledge, every experience, every cars’ll be as common as regular cars tion of poems called ‘Apriltime’ I impression, that a human brain are now. How’s the cake, Perry?” thought of Frita as my audience. would gather during its formative

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You’ll be going to a different emblazoned on the wall of the ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ school, the neighborhood isn’t lounge behind him. “Then came the Perry Simm was thirteen years as nice as we’re used to, and you PRISM Project.” old when he had his first glimpse won’t have a backyard like ours to ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ of mortality. play in.” He lay on his bed, staring at “When do we have to move?” Perry Simm was seventeen years the ceiling. He played mindlessly Clave asked. old when he drove a skycar into the with the cordstring on his window “I was hoping we could afford to side of a mountain. shade, still thinking about that hor- stay here until the end of the school The writing course had turned out rible day, two weeks ago, when year, but there’s just no way to ar- to be a bitter disappointment. Perry Mother had come home with Clave, range it. We’ll be moving at the end had decided weeks ago that the sat him down in the living room, of this month...a week from Friday.” teacher, Mr. Fixx, was a jerk. and told him that there’d been an The next week and a half was Everyone else in the class treated writ- accident at the plant and that chaotic, with the used-furniture man ing as a joke, and were only there Father was dead. carting off half the furniture, and the because the elective was well known There had been a flurry of activ- rest of their belongings getting hur- to be an easy “A.” He was the only ity: the funeral, the visits by rela- riedly packed into cartons and one in the class with any dedication, tives and friends, but now life had crates. Thursday was Perry’s last yet Fixx was constantly praising basically returned to normal. Nor- day in school, and on the way home, everyone else’s work, while dump- mal, except that he kept expecting he stopped by Rav and Frita’s to say ing on Perry’s, because Perry Father to walk into his room and goodbye, promising he’d cross town wouldn’t knuckle under to Fixx’s offer to help explain his homework, to visit them as often as he could. jerky narrow shortsighted writing or play catch, or drive to the gro- rules. His hatred of Fixx ballooned ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ cery—and he knew that that would with every class. never happen again. “When a theory fails in practice, He was in a lousy mood, and as He heard Mother calling from it means that either the theory or the his mind drifted away from Fixx’s downstairs. “Clave! Perry! Come execution was flawed. In this case, it insipid critique of someone’s worth- here please!” was the theory, and once again we less story, he thought about the argu- As Perry entered the living room can see why hindsight is so much ment he’d had with Mother this just behind Clave, he saw Geoff keener than foresight.” morning. It just wasn’t fair that she Sedick sitting with Mother. Geoff The entourage had reached the could afford to send Clave to a good was one of Father’s and Mother’s staff lounge at the very top of the private college, while he would have best friends, and he was some kind office wing. A panoramic window to settle for Rockvil U! So what if of lawyer. There were papers offered a view of the huge, meticu- the government limited student loans spread out all over the card table. lously-groomed Project grounds. to one per family? Why did Clave “Boys, Geoff and I have been “And the flaw in the theory...?” automatically get it? Perry was a going over the family finances. asked the Vice-President. better student! Things were already tight, with “The reason these projects, one He was the better student, but my layoff and the bond failure and and all, failed to produce a thinking, Clave was always more popular replacing the car, and now that self-aware computer is that, even and had more friends than Perry. Father…” She suddenly turned though they were built to work ex- His cheeks flushed with anger as away. Perry was frightened. actly like the human mind, and con- his thoughts drifted to Amy. She “What your mother means,” said tained all the same data, the method could’ve said no without embarrass- Geoff softly, “is that you won’t be of inputting that data was totally ing him in front of all her friends! able to keep this house anymore.” alien from the way a human mind He should’ve known better than to Questions flooded Perry’s mind. receives that same information. The ask someone like her out. He hated Would they have to move to a new ‘growth,’ so to speak, of the com- her and all her friends and every

8 DAKOTA ONLINE Account: PERL3 Source: Magmart Printed at: 03-16-31 16:27:33.3 Page 9 of 11 stupid jerky kid in this school. He mountainside rushed toward the car, ess, and the simulation cluster is couldn't stand another... the autoejectors activated, and the feeding PRISM all the impressions He suddenly became aware that airballoons saved Perry’s life. of a six-month-old human infant. everyone in the room was laughing, The visual is providing an image of a ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ and that Fixx was speaking to him. set of keys dangling in front of him. “Perry, are you with us? I’d hate it if “Doctor Randu and I began The aural is providing the jangling you missed this—I was just about to working on what we call a soliptic sounds. In response to this stimulus, use your Alaska story to illustrate programming process in 2017. PRISM decides to grab the keys the dangers of the improper use of Aseejh worked on the technical end, with what his senses tell him is his allegory.” and I tackled the psychological end, tiny fist. The visual shows the tiny Perry felt bolts of unreasoning and we soon had a system that we fist moving into view toward the anger shooting through his nervous thought had promise. keys, and then the tactile begins system. He rose without sending the hard, smooth even realizing it. He wasn’t and jagged feel of the keys. sure what he shouted at Just one of a million exam- Fixx, but he could hear the ples that make up a single jerk yelling “You’ll be ex- “ e have day’s worth of experiences. pelled! You’ll be expelled!” “With the help of a Wil- as Perry stormed into the succeeded liams-Mennen grant, we hall. began building PRISM and He had no idea where he increating the simulation cluster in was going as he brushed past 2020, and the programming the security guard at the process began a year later.” front door, ignoring his re- true intelligence ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ quest for a pass. Fuming and cursing, he stomped to the in a machine.” Perry Simm was nineteen car lot and climbed into the years old when he experi- family skycar, slamming the enced his first broken heart. heavy fiberanium door be- He was in the usual giddy, hind him. happy mood he’d been in He pushed the accelerator to the “If you recall, the previous at- since meeting Fyla five weeks ago. floor, rising far faster than allowed tempts had failed not because of the He whistled as he entered his apart- by law, and sped off west toward the design of their machines, but be- ment, dumping the grocery bags mountains. He had no destination in cause of their method of inputting onto the kitchen counter. mind, but he had to get away, go data.” The Vice-President nodded. “Fyla,” he yelled, “I’ve got a somewhere, anywhere. Perry was “The theory behind our process was surprise! Real coffee with dinner! I usually a careful driver, but in his to make the programming of the had to wait in line for…” He sud- rage, he didn't notice the blinking machine as similar to the ‘program- denly noticed the note on the table. orange light. ming’ of the human mind as possi- “Perry,” the note said, in Fyla’s The speedometer was pinned at ble. We would simulate EXACTLY curvy handwriting, “I don’t think 350 kph as the foothills of the the life experiences of a human be- we should see each other any more. Rockies began passing below the ing from the very first day of its life. It’s never going to work as a perma- car. Unknown to Perry, the leaking “Naturally, it was easier said than nent relationship. It’s best to end it fluid in the autoguidance system had done. We had to design inputs that now before we get too emotionally reached a critical level. By itself, would precisely simulate every hu- involved. Please don’t call me or try that wouldn't have mattered, but the man sense. A cluster of five com- to see me. Fondly, Fyla.” linkage to the manual control stick puters, each one nearly as large as Perry felt dizzy, and suddenly had rusted through. The skycar was PRISM itself, would be needed sim- realized that he was sitting in one of an early model, and it was already ply to monitor and control the simu- the kitchen chairs, holding the old when they’d bought it after lation. Here’s an example of how phone. His hands trembled as he Father’s death. this soliptic programming process dialed Fyla’s number. When the car began to roll, it was works: “Hello?” His heart leapt at the too late to do anything. As the “It’s the earliest stage of the proc- sound of her voice.

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“Fyla, you can't really mean—” your eyes now!” able to see everything interesting “Perry! I said not to call me!” Perry opened his eyes, grinned, from up here. Ms. Gold will stay Perry felt lost, shaken. “But and kissed Jill lovingly, then pre- with you.” He could see Vera shak- why!? What did I do?” tended that he was only doing it to ing in anger at the way he’d com- “It’s not anything you DID. It just distract her while he dipped a finger pletely pre-empted her. “I hope I wasn’t right. You’re very sweet and into the creamy frosting. haven’t bored you.” everything, but we're just not right “I’ll bet Fyla couldn’t bake like “Nonsense! A fascinating dis- for each other.” me!” course. Thanks…and...good luck!” “Yes we are, I know we are— “You win,” said Perry, after After leaving the conference couldn’t we give it another chance? blowing out all the candles. room, Perelman beelined toward the I’ll try to be more, more like what- “Next week I’ll bake you another Control Center. A quick briefing ever you want me to be like…” for your graduation.” update informed him that everything “Perry, I really wish you hadn’t Perry nodded absently. was on schedule and moving along called. If you really have to know, “Nervous about the interview at exactly as planned. there’s someone else. I didn’t the magazine tomorrow, honey?” Perelman spent the intervening want to hurt you, but you...” He waved away the notion. “No. minutes watching the simulation He pressed the CANCEL button I’ll get the job. You know the inter- monitor. He wanted to be com- almost spasmodically, and then sat view’s only a formality.” pletely comfortable with it, so that silently, for a long, long time, in the The printer in the corner pro- when he stepped in he’d be prepared lonely, darkening apartment. duced a sudden “ding,” and chit- to handle any crisis. tered quietly for several seconds. Jill Finally, the time had come. His ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ opened the cover. “It’s just the eve- hand shook slightly as he reached to “The soliptic programming proc- ning news,” she said to Perry, as she flip on the audio circuit. ess takes almost as long as the events tore the sheets off and brought them ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ it simulates. It is now eleven years over. Perry was just picking off the since we began the process, and last crumbs of his cake, and she Perry walked confidently into the PRISM, within the context of the snuggled into his lap as he began office. The editor was an older man, simulation, is now about twenty to read. with a white goatee. They shook years old. We originally planned to Suddenly, Perry sat straight up in hands briskly, and Perry took a seat continue until an apparent age of the chair, almost spilling Jill onto the in one of the comfortable armchairs. twenty-five, but, as you know, we’ve floor. “Perry! What is it?” The interview soon began to take agreed to begin the next phase of the He was unable to say anything, an odd turn, and Perry soon found him- Project now, so that PRISM can and merely pointed to an article in self discussing the most esoteric study the Plan.” the paper that read “Rav Hansom, subjects with the editor. They were They were approaching the main Author and Poet, Dead at 71.” currently discussing perception and conference room again. The tour Jill guessed the truth. “Is he the knowledge. was nearing its end. writer you used to visit when you “For example,” the older man “We have known for years, based were little?” was saying, “how can you be sure on PRISM’s responses to our inputs, Perry nodded, and found his that you are even human? What if that we have succeeded in creating voice. “I haven’t seen him in almost you were a computer, and your en- true intelligence in a machine. The seven years. I was always planning tire life were simply a simulation, only question that remains is how to visit him, but I kept putting it off. programmed to represent the reality PRISM will react to the discovery Now…” his voice broke. “He was of a human existence in every way? of what he really is.” probably the best friend I had when You’d never know the difference.” I was growing up…” Perry wondered what his point ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ Jill pulled him gently toward her. was. “It’s a cute idea, but if there Perry Simm was twenty years He cried for a long time. was no way for me to know, then old when his life began to fall into it doesn’t really matter, does it? place. ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ I mean, an indistinguishable Jill placed the cake on the table in Perelman glanced at his watch. difference isn’t a difference at all, front of Perry. Twenty little candles “I’m afraid that Doctor Randu and I right?” lined the perimeter. “Okay,” she will have to leave now. It’s getting He began to feel dizzy, and in his whispered in his ear, “you can open pretty close to zero hour. You’ll be confusion he even started wondering

10 DAKOTA ONLINE Account: PERL3 Source: Magmart Printed at: 03-16-31 16:27:34.0 Page 11 of 11 if the old fellow was right, and he really was a computer. He felt a pang of worry about how he would tell Jill. The room around him was shimmering, dissolving away. He felt himself flung into a void, and from somewhere close by, he heard someone calling his voice. “Perry Simm ... Perry Simm ... P’ry Simm ... Prisim ... PRISM ... PRISM ...”

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“PRISM, my name is Abraham Perelman. It’s all true, I’m afraid. You are a computer, and your life was merely a simulation whose pur- pose was to instill you with intelli- gence and self-awareness. Think about everything you learned in that AI course you took. You are the first of a new breed—the thinking ma- chine. Join me, and I will lead you along the road toward your new existence.”

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Imagine yourself in the same cir- cumstance. You have spent twenty years living a normal, unsuspecting life. You are YOU. Then suddenly, one day, the universe around you is torn away, and you learn that your whole life has been a charade, a Catch the breezes in carefully calculated scientific experi- our airy tunic, gently ment. Perhaps, at this very moment, gathered with a lovely you are a normal human being, sit- silvoid belt, Rose pink un- ting in some comfortable armchair derskirt hints at the flowers soon to bloom. reading this story. But—perhaps you are not. Imagine the shock; imagine the terror. Soon I embark on a strange mis- sion, venturing into the future, yet without the slightest hint of my own Tunic, skirt and shorts fate. Perhaps this account will some- by Nicholas in shimmery day be read by future generations of myalon, sizes S, M, L, $695. humans, maybe even future genera- Jesse silvoid belt, $229 tions of sentient machines. You will know whether the world I helped ONLY AT build is a success or a failure. Either way, understand that my limitations D U N B A R ‚ S were, if not human, at least mortal. Rockvil Pierre Calgary I am PRISM, and that is my story. Rockvil Centre Main St. near Old Statehouse Mapleleaf Mall

APRIL 11 12 Instruction Manual Instruction Manual for If you’re experienced with Infocom’s interactive fiction, you may not want to read this entire manual. A MIND FOREVER VOYAGING However, AMFV has a number of unique features not found in other stories. You’ll have to read the Welcome to A Mind Forever Voyaging (which, for section entitled “The AMFV Scenario.” Also, you brevity’s sake, will henceforth be referred to as should look at the appendices of important com- AMFV). In this story, you will be PRISM, the mands (on page 19) and recognized verbs (on page world’s first sentient machine. Before you “boot up” 20). The sample transcript, on page 21, will show your disk, make sure you read the short story in the most of the unusual interactions of AMFV. first part of the booklet. The story begins in the world of 2031, a world on Table of Contents the brink of chaos. The economy of the United An Overview Page 14 States of North America (USNA) has been stagnat- What is interactive fiction? ing for decades. Crackpot religions are springing up all over the place. Crime and urban decay are ram- The AMFV Scenario 14 pant. School have become violent, chaotic places You are the world’s first intelligent computer. This ill-suited for educating children. Today’s youth fre- section explains how that works. quently use joybooths to “tune-out” the world, lead- Tips for Novices 15 ing in the extreme case to joybooth suicide, where Nine useful pointers about interactive fiction a psychological addict wastes away in his or her private nirvana. Communicating with AMFV 16 • The global situation is even grimmer. The calcutti- Basic sentences zation of the Third World has almost reached its • Complex sentences limit, causing extreme overpopulation and poverty. • Talking to characters in the story This has created a climate ripe for East Bloc adven- • Vocabulary limitations turism, exploiting instability and fanning the numer- Starting and Stopping 18 ous flash points around the globe. The superpower • Starting AMFV (“Booting Up”) race to build an impenetrable missile defense has • Saving and Restoring ended in a tie, with the foreseeable but unforeseen • Quitting and Restarting result that an even more dangerous arms race has begun—a race to build miniature nuclear weapons, Appendix A: Important Commands 19 some as small as a cigarette pack, and smuggle them Appendix B: Some Recognized Verbs 20 into enemy cities—a race which threatens to turn the USNA into a giant police state. Appendix C: AMFV’s Complaints 20 Things are bad, and it appears that they can only Appendix D: Sample Transcript and Map 21 get worse. So when senator Richard Ryder, along with a small group of leaders from government, busi- Appendix E: We’re Never Satisfied 24 ness, and the universities, announces the Plan for Appendix F: If You Have Technical Problems 24 Renewed National Purpose, everyone is only too Appendix G: Author Biography 24 willing to embrace it. Only one things stands between the Plan and its Appendix H: Copyright and Warranty 25 adoption: a test of its validity. That’s why you have Information been “awakened” from your simulated life and had Appendix I: Quick Reference Guide 25 your true nature revealed to you several years ahead This is a brief summary of the most important things of schedule. You have been chosen to use your to know about interactive fiction. It is vital that you unique abilities to enter a simulation of the future, know all these things before you begin playing. based on the tenets of the Plan, in order to check its effectiveness. The eyes of the world are on you.

Instruction Manual 13 An Overview Library Mode: This is a storehouse of information, Interactive fiction is a story in which you are the arranged in directories which each contain a num- main character. Your own thinking and imagination ber of data files. When you enter Library Mode, the determine the actions of that character and guide usual style of typing an input and pressing the the story from start to finish. RETURN (or ENTER) key is suspended. Follow Each work of interactive fiction, such as AMFV, the instructions that appear on your screen to presents you with a series of locations, items, char- access the information in the files. acters and events. You can interact with these in a Interface Mode: There are several subsidiary com- variety of ways. puters and complex system controllers connected to There are a number of modes you can enter in you. More may be added over the course of the AMFV. These will reviewed in detail in the next story. By entering Interface Mode, you will be able section. You will probably spend most of your time in to “speak” to these other devices, get information Simulation Mode. When you’re in Simulation Mode, from them, possibly give them orders. You interface the play of the game will be very similar to Infocom’s with a device the same way that you would speak to other interactive fiction. For example: a character in the story. For example: TRAFFIC To move from place to place, type the direction COMPUTER, SET EVENING RUSH HOUR END TO you want to go. The first time you find yourself in a 5:00 or HVAC COMPUTER, TURN ON VENTILATION new region, it’s a good idea to become familiar with it IN GAMMA SECTOR. Data about these interfaceable by exploring every location, reading each description devices can be found in Library Mode. carefully, and making a map of the geography. Simulation Mode: This is the heart of the story. In AMFV, time passes only in response to your You will have to enter this mode many times to com- input. You might imagine a clock that ticks once for plete AMFV. Simulation Mode is the process that each sentence you type, and the story progresses was used to “program” you and develop you into a only at each tick. Nothing happens until you type a thinking, creative machine. Now, that same process, sentence and press the RETURN (or ENTER) key, so programmed with the parameters of the Plan, will you can plan your turns as slowly and carefully as you allow you to simulate the future in amazing detail. want. Usually, each turn takes one minute in the Once you have entered Simulation Mode, the story. Walking around takes longer, and WAIT gener- interaction will be very similar to that of most other ally causes ten minutes to pass in the story. Infocom fiction: walk around, map the geography, Your goal in the first part of AMFV is to enter examine and read things, pick up objects, and so Simulation Mode in order to study what the effects forth. ABORT will get you out of Simulation Mode at of the Plan will be on the world in ten years’ time. any time. However, as the story progresses, you may discover Because only you see what happens in Simulation new goals for yourself. Mode, you'll want to use the RECORD feature to save what you see, so that others in the “real world” The AMFV Scenario can view your experiences. Typing RECORD or Since you’re a computer, your life is pretty dissim- RECORD ON will activate it, and typing RECORD ilar to that of a human. There are five “modes” that OFF will de-activate it. Be warned, however, that you can enter. To enter a given mode, just type EN- RECORD makes an enormous demand on your core TER or GO TO [that mode]. Here is a list of the five memory, and you will only be able to record a limited modes, and a description of each: amount of experiences. Everything you see, feel, Communications Mode: You have a number of and learn in Simulation Mode can be recorded. You visual/audio units set up at various points around the can also use the RECORD feature in Communica- complex. When you enter Communications Mode, tions Mode if you want. you will be told where these units are, and how to Sleep Mode: Because sleep is a psychological as activate them. When you have activated a unit in a well as a physical need, Sleep Mode has been pro- particular location, you are effectively “in that loca- vided to rest your conscious mind. Approximately tion.” You’ll be able to see and hear what's going on, six hours will pass during an average sleep period. and talk to anyone there. You won’t be able to pick up things in those locations, of course.

14 Instruction Manual Tips for Novices 6. You may find it helpful to play AMFV with another 1. Draw a map when you’re in a simulation. The map person. Different people may have different perspec- in your AMFV package shows only streets and land- tives on a given portion of the game, making it easier mark locations: furthermore, it represents Rockvil to decide what to do next. of 2031, not 2041. Your map should include each loca- 7. If you get really stuck, you can order a hint booklet tion, the directions connecting it to other locations, and a complete map using the order form in your and any interesting objects there. (See the small sam- package. You don’t need the hint booklet to enjoy the ple map that goes along with the sample transcript on story, but it will make it easier to get to the ending. page 21.) Note that there are 10 possible directions, 8. Read the sample transcript on page 21 to get a plus IN and OUT. feel for how interactive fiction works. 2. Read everything: contents of computer files, signs, 9. You can frequently word the same command in a newspapers, etc. These will help you to understand variety of ways. For example, if you discovered a things that are going on around you. Also, read the black box lying on the ground and wanted to begin text of the story carefully; don’t skim. Descriptions carrying it around, you could use any of the following: of locations and objects frequently contain important information. >TAKE BOX >GET THE BLACK BOX 3. Save your place often, so that if you find yourself >PICK UP THE BOX in a blind alley in the story line, you can return to an appropriate earlier point, rather than having to In fact, if the box is the only object present that you start over from the beginning. See page 18 for could take, just typing TAKE is enough, since AMFV instructions. will assume you mean the box. But more about that in the next section... 4. Don’t hesitate to try strange or dangerous actions. They may provide information, or have an interesting response, or both! You can always save your position first if you want. Here’s an example: > STEP OUT ONTO THE LEDGE A crowd gathers on the sidewalk below, chanting “Jump! Jump!” Several policemen stop by, glance up, and wander disinterestedly away. You’ve just learned quite a bit about the society which you’re simulating. 5. Unlike other “adventure games” that you may have played, there is no single, linear, correct path through AMFV. The story is very open-ended, and although there is one “best” ending, there are countless paths that get you there. And like other Infocom works of interactive fiction, AMFV is not intensely “puzzle-oriented”; as you play, you should be spending more time gathering information than finding hidden treasures or trying to get past locked doors.

Instruction Manual 15 Communicating with AMFV AMFV understands many different kinds of sen- In AMFV, you type your sentence in plain English tences. Here are several examples. (Note that some each time you see the prompt (>). AMFV usually acts of these items do not actually appear in AMFV.) as if your sentence begins “I want to...,” although > WALK NORTH you shouldn’t actually type those words. You can use > DOWN words like THE if you want, and you can use capital > U letters if you want; AMFV doesn’t care either way. > NE When you finish typing a sentence, press the > ENTER INTERFACE MODE RETURN (or ENTER) key. AMFV will respond by tell- > TAKE THE KEY ing you whether your request is possible at this > DROP IT point in the story, and what happened as a result. > READ THE PLAQUE AMFV recognizes your words by their first nine > BUY SOME FOOD letters, and all subsequent letters are ignored. > OPEN THE GLASS DOOR Therefore, SENSATION, SENSATIONal, and SENSA- > EXAMINE THE CAN OF KELP PASTE TIONalism would all be treated as the same word by > LOOK UNDER THE TABLE AMFV. > SHOOT THE GUARD WITH THE PELLET GUN To move around, just type the desired direction. > PUT THE COIN IN THE LEATHER PURSE You can use the eight compass directions: NORTH, You can use multiple objects with certain verbs if SOUTH, EAST, WEST, NORTHEAST, NORTHWEST, you separate them by the word AND or by a comma. SOUTHEAST and SOUTHWEST. You can abbreviate Some examples: these to N, S, E, W, NE, NW, SE and SW, respec- > TAKE THE PENCIL, THE PAPER AND THE STAMP tively. You can use UP (or U) and DOWN (or D). IN > DROP MAP, ID CARD, PELLET GUN and OUT will also work in certain places. > PUT THE EGGS AND THE BACON IN THE FRYING PAN > GIVE THE COIN AND THE PENCIL TO THE BEGGAR

The word ALL refers to every visible object, ex- cept those inside something else. If there were an apple on the ground and an orange inside a cabinet, TAKE ALL would take the apple but not the orange. > TAKE ALL > TAKE ALL THE STAMPS > TAKE ALL THE STAMPS EXCEPT THE RED STAMP > GIVE ALL BUT THE PELLET GUN TO THE CLERK > DROP ALL EXCEPT THE COIN You can include several sentences on one input line if you separate them by the word THEN or by a period. (Each sentence will still cause time to pass.) You don’t need a period at the end of the input line. For example, you could type all of the following at once, before pressing the RETURN (or ENTER) key: > UP. TAKE THE BOX THEN OPEN IT. PUT THE PELLET

IN THE BOX. CLOSE IT

If AMFV doesn’t understand one of the sentences on your input line, or if something unusual happens, it will ignore the rest of your input line (see “AMFV Complaints” on page 20).

16 Instruction Manual There are three kinds of questions you can ask in If your sentence is ambiguous, AMFV will ask AMFV: WHAT, WHERE, and WHO. These are gen- what you really mean. You can answer most of these erally useful only when speaking to other characters. questions briefly by supplying the missing informa- Here are examples that you can try in AMFV: tion, rather than typing the entire input again. You can do this only at the very next prompt. Some > WHAT IS MINDEX examples: > WHERE AM I? > WHO IS ABRAHAM PERELMAN? > CUT THE ROPE What do you want to cut the rope with? You will meet other people in AMFV. You can > THE KNIFE “talk” to these other characters by typing their name The knife is too blunt, or the rope is too tough. After a (or description) then a comma, then whatever you want them to do. Here are some examples: minute, you give up. or > PERELMAN, TELL ME ABOUT THE PLAN > SHOOT THE MUGGER WITH THE GUN > CLERK, SELL ME SOME CLOTHES Which gun do you mean, the pellet gun or the stun gun? > OLD MAN, TAKE THE SACK THEN FOLLOW ME > STUN Notice that in the last example, you are giving a per- The gun whines and the mugger slumps to the ground. son more than one command on the same input line. AMFV uses many words in its descriptions that it You can use quotation marks to answer a question will not recognize in your sentences. For example, you or say something “out loud.” For example: might read, “A siren wails in the distance, signalling an > SAY “HELLO” air raid in a distant part of town.” However, if AMFV > ANSWER “NO” doesn’t recognize the words SIREN or the phrase AIR RAID in your input, you can assume that they AMFV tries to guess what you really mean when are not important to your completion of the story, you don’t give enough information. For example, if except to provide you with a more vivid description you say that you want to do something, but not what of where you are or what is going on. AMFV rec- you want to do it to or with, AMFV will sometimes ognizes over 1400 words, nearly all that you are likely decide that there is only one possible object that you to use in your sentences. If AMFV doesn’t know a could mean. When it does so, it will tell you. For word you used, or any of its common synonyms, you example: are almost certainly on the wrong track. > TAKE (the coin) You pick up the coin and put it safely in your pocket. or > GIVE THE BOOK (to the librarian) The librarian puts the book on the stack of books to be shelved.

Instruction Manual 17 Starting and Stopping Saving and Restoring: It will probably take you many Starting the story: Now that you know what to ex- days to complete AMFV. Using the SAVE feature, you pect when you venture into AMFV, it’s time for you can continue at a later time without having to start to “boot” your disk. To load AMFV, follow the in- over from the beginning, just as you can place a structions on the Reference Card in your package. bookmark in a book you are reading. SAVE puts a When you have finished reading the opening “snapshot” of your place in the story onto another screen, press any key to get to the beginning of the disk. If you are a cautious adventurer, you may want story. The copyright notice and the release num- to save your place before (or after) trying something ber of the story will appear, followed by an opening dangerous or tricky. That way, you can go back to message and a description of your location, that position later, even if you have gotten side- Communications Mode. tracked since that point. Here’s a quick exercise to help you get accus- To save your place in the story, type SAVE at the tomed to interacting with AMFV. Try the following prompt (>), and then follow the instructions for command first: saving and restoring on your Reference Card. Some systems require a blank disk, initialized and > GO TO SIMULATION MODE formatted, for saves. Using a disk with data on it Then press the RETURN (or ENTER) key. AMFV will (not counting other AMFV saves) may result in the respond with: loss of that data, depending on what kind of com- ERROR: puter you have. You can save your position as often as you like by using additional blank disks. You are not yet cleared for Simulation Mode. Please wait You can restore a saved position any time you for approval before beginning simulation. want. To do so, type RESTORE at the prompt (>), Now, to connect to Dr. Perelman’s office, type in the and follow the instructions on your Reference Card. code: You will be given a description of your location, and > PEOF can now continue the story from the point where you used the SAVE command. Then press the RETURN (or ENTER) key. You will get a description of Doctor Perelman’s office. Next, you Quitting and Restarting: If you want to start over can try: from the beginning, type RESTART. (This is usually faster than re-booting.) Just to make sure, AMFV > PERELMAN, TELL ME ABOUT MY NAME will ask if you really want to start over. If you do, After you press the RETURN (or ENTER) key, AMFV type Y or YES. will respond appropriately. If you want to stop entirely, type QUIT. Once again, AMFV will ask if this is really what you want to do. Remember when you RESTART or QUIT: if you want to be able to return to your current position, you must first use the SAVE command.

18 Instruction Manual Appendix A SCRIPT—This command tells your printer to begin Important Commands making a transcript of the story as you go along. A There are a number of one-word commands which transcript may aid your memory but is not neces- you can type instead of a sentence. You can use them sary. See your Reference Card for the printer re- over and over as needed. Some count as a turn, quirements of your system. Note: Transcripts will others do not. Type the command after the prompt not include the information on the status line, or (>) and hit the RETURN (or ENTER) key. anything else that appears in the upper, non-scrolling ABORT—This will get you out of Simulation Mode. portion of the screen, such as the menus in Library Mode. AGAIN—AMFV will respond as though you had exactly repeated your previous sentence. You can ab- SUPERBRIEF—This commands AMFV to display breviate AGAIN to G. only the name of a place you have entered, even if BRIEF—This tells AMFV to give you the full descrip- you have never been there before. In this mode, tion of a location only the first time you enter it. On AMFV will not even mention which objects are subsequent visits, AMFV will tell you only the name present. Of course, you can always get a description of the location and the objects present. This is how of your location, and the items there, by typing AMFV will normally act, unless you tell it otherwise LOOK. In SUPERBRIEF mode, the blank line between using the VERBOSE or SUPERBRIEF commands. turns will be eliminated. This mode is meant for play- DIAGNOSE—AMFV will give you a brief report of ers who are already know their way around. Also see your physical condition. VERBOSE and BRIEF. INVENTORY—AMFV will list what you are carrying. UNSCRIPT—This commands your printer to stop You can abbreviate INVENTORY to I. making a transcript. LOOK—This will give you a full description of your VERBOSE—This tells AMFV that you want a com- current location. You can abbreviate LOOK to L. plete description of each location, and the objects in OOPS—If you accidentally mistype a word, such it, every time you enter a location, even if you’ve that AMFV doesn’t understand the word, you can been there before. Also see BRIEF and SUPERBRIEF. correct yourself on the next line by typing OOPS and the correct word. Suppose, for example, you VERSION—AMFV responds by showing you the typed PUT THE BOOJ ON THE DUSTY SHELF and release number and the serial number of your copy of were told “[I don’t know the word ‘booj’.]” You could the story. Please include this information if you ever type OOPS BOOK rather than retyping the entire report a “bug.” sentence. WAIT—This will cause time in the story to pass. QUIT—This lets you stop. If you want to save your Normally, between turns, nothing happens in the position before quitting, follow the instructions in the story. You could leave your computer, take a nap and “Starting and Stopping” section on page 18. You can return to find that nothing has changed. You can use abbreviate QUIT to Q. WAIT to make time pass in the story without doing RECORD—This activates the RECORD feature. anything. For example, if you encounter a wild ani- RECORD OFF deactivates this feature. (If you ABORT mal, you could WAIT to see what it will do. Or, if you from Simulation Mode, you’ll automatically turn off are in a moving vehicle, you could WAIT to see where the RECORD feature.) it will go. Unless something interrupts you, WAIT will cause ten minutes to pass. You can also WAIT RESTART—This stops the story and starts it over FOR a certain number of minutes, or WAIT UNTIL a from the beginning. certain time. You can abbreviate WAIT to Z. RESTORE—This restores a story position made using the SAVE command. See “Starting and Stop- ping” for more details. SAVE—This makes a “snapshot” of your current position onto a storage disk. You can return to a saved position in the future using the RESTORE com- mand. See “Starting and Stopping” on page 18 for more details.

Instruction Manual 19 Appendix B THAT SENTENCE ISN’T ONE I RECOGNIZE. The Some Recognized Verbs sentence you typed may have been gibberish due to This is only some of the verbs that AMFV under- a typing error, such as PUT THE BOOK OF THE TA- stands. There are many more. Remember that you BLE. Or, you may have typed a reasonable sentence can use a variety of prepositions with them. For ex- but used a syntax that AMFV does not recognize, ample, LOOK can become LOOK INSIDE, LOOK such as WAVE OVER THE FENCE. Try rephrasing the BEHIND, LOOK UNDER, LOOK THROUGH, LOOK sentence. AT and so on. THERE WAS NO VERB IN THAT SENTENCE! Unless ANSWER EAT MOVE SLIDE you are answering a question, each sentence must ASK ENTER OPEN SMELL have a verb (or a command) in it somewhere. BOARD EXAMINE POINT STAND THERE SEEMS TO BE A NOUN MISSING IN THAT BREAK EXIT PUSH START SENTENCE! This usually means that your sentence BUY FIND PUT SWITCH was incomplete, such as EAT THE BLUE. CALL FOLLOW RAISE TAKE CHANGE GIVE READ TALK THERE WERE TOO MANY NOUNS IN THAT SEN- CLIMB JUMP REMOVE TELL TENCE. An example is PUT THE SOUP IN THE BOWL CLOSE KILL SAY THROW WITH THE LADLE, which has three noun “phrases,” COUNT KISS SEARCH TOUCH one more than AMFV can digest in a single action. CROSS KNOCK SET TURN YOU CAN’T USE MULTIPLE (IN)DIRECT OBJECTS CUT LIE SHAKE UNLOCK WITH “_____.” You can use multiple objects (that DIG LISTEN SHOOT WAKE is, nouns or noun phrases separated by AND or a DISEMBARK LOCK SHOW WALK comma) or the word ALL only with certain verbs. DRINK LOOK SIT WEAR Among the more useful of these verbs are TAKE, DROP LOWER SLEEP YELL DROP and PUT. An example of a verb that will not work with multiple objects is ATTACK; you couldn’t Appendix C say ATTACK ALL or ATTACK THE PRIEST AND THE AMFV Complaints POLICEMAN. AMFV will complain if you type a sentence that con- YOU CAN’T SEE ANY “_____” HERE! The item you fuses it completely, and will then ignore the rest of referred to was not visible. It may be somewhere the input line. (Certain events in the story may also else, inside a closed container, and so on. cause AMFV to ignore the rest of the sentences you typed, since event may have changed your situa- THE OTHER OBJECT(S) THAT YOU MENTIONED tion drastically.) AMFV’s complaints always appear ISN’T (AREN’T) HERE. You referred to two or more in brackets “[like this]” to distinguish them from the items in the same sentence, and at least one of them text of the story. Some of AMFV’s complaints: wasn’t visible to you in your present location. I DON’T KNOW THE WORD “_____.” The word you BE SPECIFIC: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO _____? You typed is not in the story’s vocabulary. Sometimes used HIM, HER or IT, but AMFV isn’t sure what person using a synonym or rephrasing will help. If not, or object you meant. AMFV probably doesn’t know the idea you were I BEG YOUR PARDON? You pressed the RETURN (or trying to get across. Remember AMFV recognizes ENTER) key without typing anything. your words by their first nine letters. YOU CAN’T GO THAT WAY. There was no passage YOU USED THE WORD “_____” IN A WAY THAT I or exit in the direction you tried to move. DON’T UNDERSTAND. AMFV knows the word you typed, but couldn’t use it in that sense. Usually this is because AMFV knows the word as a different part of speech. For example, if you typed PRESS THE LOWER BUTTON, you are using LOWER as an adjec- tive, but AMFV might know LOWER only as a verb, as in LOWER THE BOOM.

20 Instruction Manual Appendix D “Absolutely the most delicious steak I’ve ever had in my Sample Transcript and Map life,” exclaims the woman, in a high, whiny voice. “It This transcript is not from AMFV, but it does show was juicy, tender, and really, really tasty!” The off-screen most of the things you can do in the story. It will give narrator asks, “Would you believe me if I told you that you a good idea how interactive fiction in general, you’ve been eating FrozenBoy Yeasteaks?” and AMFV in particular, works. The player’s sen- >WAIT tences appear in capital letters after each prompt Time passes… (>). The map represents the terrain in the sample transcript. The anchorman reappears. “In New Washington to- day, the President’s Population Control Package is in for some rough times, as religious pressure groups are gear- ing up for a massive lobbying effort to defeat the initia- tive. Early straw polls predict that next week’s vote on the bill is too close to call.” A message comes over the message line: “Garcia to PRISM. Please activate the communications port in my office.” >GAOF Dr. Garcia’s Office This is the office of Dr. Julio Garcia, the Secretary of Population for the United States of North America. Vol- umes of government studies fill the shelves. The walls are tastefully decorated with art prints, such as van Gogh and Brangwynne. A thick black notebook is sitting on Dr. Garcia’s desk. Dr. Garcia is sitting at his desk, working.

>LOOK AT THE NOTEBOOK

The notebook is labeled “Omnibus Population Manage- You have entered Communication Mode. The following ment Initiative of 2033, Legislative Docket Number locations are equipped with communication outlets: 2033-419F.” PRISM Project Control Center (PPCC) Dr. Garcia looks up at your communications unit and Dr. Garcia’s Office (GAOF) nods. “PRISM, we’d like you to do a simulation for us, to Staff Lounge (STAL) study what the state of the country will be in thirty years World News Network Feed (WNNF) if the President’s Population Bill is scuttled. We’ve fed To activate a specific outlet, submit the associated the parameters into the Simulation Controller, so we’re code. ready when you are.” >WNNF

World News Network Feed Your visual and audio circuits are now hooked directly to the programming of the World News Network: You see various scenes of a busy restaurant, as a narrator whispers, “We travelled to the world-famous steakhouse, Jack’s Steer Palace in Dallas, to see if we could fool people into thinking that our FrozenBoy Yeasteaks were the real thing. Here’s what happened.” The picture cuts to a couple seated at the dinner table.

Instruction Manual 21 >DOCTOR GARCIA, WHAT IS THE POPULATION >SHOW MY RESIDENCY PETMIT TO THE WORKER BILL? [I don’t know the word “petmit.”] “It’s the President’s comprehensive plan to deal with >OOPS PERMIT the population problems. I’m surprised you haven’t The worker growls and shoves a tray of the hash into heard about it. It’s been all over the news.” your hands. >GO TO SIMULATION MODE >EXAMINE THE HASH This simulation is considered Class Three Security and is It’s a semi-solid goo of brown and gray and white sub- based in 2063. This is your last chance to abort. Do stances. It smells awful, and looks marginally edible. you want to abort? > NO >RECORD OFF Broadway & Devon Record feature deactivated. You’re standing on the corner of Broadway, a wide east- west boulevard, and Devon Lane, a small north-south >LEAVE THE CAFETERIA street. A government cafeteria is on the northeast cor- Broadway & Devon ner, and tall, guarded apartment towers are on the >NORTH other three corners. Entrance to Base >SOUTHWEST Devon Street, which continues to the south, ends here at A guard blocks your way. “Get lost,” he says. “No the gate to the National Guard base for this sector of the squatting here.” city. On the west side of the street is a large, imposing building. To the east is Devon Park. The front page of a >NORTHEAST newspaper is pinned against the fence of the base by Cafeteria the wind. You have entered a massive government-run food dis- pensary. Long lines of listless people wait to carry away >RECORD trays of brownish hash. Depressing gray tables fill the Record feature activated. center of this colorless room. >READ THE NEWSPAPER >RECORD ON (taking the piece of newspaper first) Record feature activated. The headline story is about President Mazzotta’s defence of the Martial Law Board’s decision to lower the man- >LOOK datory euthanasia age to 55. “Without this ruling,” the Cafeteria President is quoted as saying, “we’d have a full-fledged You have entered a massive government-run food dis- famine by the end of the next year.” The President agreed pensary. Long lines of listless people wait to carry that it was a difficult and unpopular step, but blamed it away trays of brownish hash. Depressing gray tables on decades of neglect by previous administrations. The fill the center of this colorless room. article ends with a reminder that anyone over the age of >GET SOME FOOD 55 has two weeks to report to the Euthanasia Center. You wait in the line, which moves agonizingly slowly. Finally, you get to the dispensing area. A surly worker growls, “Let’s see yer permit.” >INVENTORY You are carrying: a credit card a residency permit The worker growls, “C’mon, joker, yer holding up the line.”

22 Instruction Manual >RECORD OFF >COMFORT JILL Record feature deactivated. You take Jill in your arms. She buries her head against >WEST your chest, her body shaking with sobs. You can feel Euthanasia Center her ribs through her thin, myalon smock. This is one of the many locations where the hopeless, Suddenly, you notice four National Guardsmen standing homeless victims of modern society can come to be re- around you. “Spot check,” says one of the officers. lieved of their burdens. In addition, those reaching the “Let’s see your permits.” Jill looks at you, unreasoning regulated age must report here for termination. terror in her eyes. Your throat is dry, and your voice >EAST cracks as you explain that your wife lost her permit. Entrance to Base “She’ll have to come with us, then,” says the officer, grabbing Jill’s bony arm and leading her toward a wait- >ENTER THE PARK ing skyvan. You try to stop them, but one of the Guards- Devon Park men cracks you across your skull with a rubber club. This once-lovely park, like all the others in the city, has Through your wooziness, tears, and blood, you see Jill been converted to refugee-style huts for the homeless. being hustled into the skyvan. As it lifts and glides away, This is one of the less crowded camps; some families you realize that you’ll never see your wife again. have nearly 150 square feet of ground. The only exit from the park is to the west. >ABORT Aborting to Communications Mode. >RECORD ON – SIMULATION TERMINATED – Record feature activated. >STAL >LOOK Staff Lounge Devon Park The visual unit at this outlet provides you with a view of This once-lovely park, like all the others in the city, has a comfortable and soothing room. Many plants hang been converted to refugee-style huts for the homeless. from the ceiling. On the walls, which are painted laven- This is one of the less crowded camps; some families der-white, are Monet and Cody prints. have nearly 150 square feet of ground. The only exit A fresh pot of plankton is brewing in a corner. from the park is to the west. >SMELL THE PLANKTON >RECORD OFF You’re not equipped with olfactory senses. Record feature deactivated. >WAIT >WEST.SOUTH.SOUTH Time passes… Entrance to Base “Garcia to PRISM. Please come to my office as soon as Broadway & Devon possible.” Everett & Devon >GAOF Devon Lane ends here at the intersection with Everett Dr. Garcia’s Office Street, which continues to the east and west. This block of Devon Lane was once considered “quaint,” since it is Dr. Garcia smiles as he sees your active light comes on. lined with hemlocks and still has streetlights, fire hy- “PRISM, I just finished viewing your recordings. You’ve drants, and manhole covers. The south side of Everett is done a fine job. I think the President will be able to use lined with sub-standard housing. your recordings to convince the Congress and the public of the need for the Population Bill. Again, thanks for a Jill, your wife, suddenly runs up to you, looking frantic. job well done.” “Perry, I’ve been searching all over for you! I lost my residency permit! I looked everywhere for it! How will I eat?” She breaks into sobs.

Instruction Manual 23 Appendix E Appendix H We’re Never Satisfied Author Biography Here at Infocom, we take great pride in the quality Steve Meretzky was born in 1957, spent his child- of our stories. Even after our stories are “out the hood in Yonkers, New York, and entered MIT in door,” we’re constantly improving, honing and 1975. After eking out a degree in 1979, he began a perfecting. brief career in Construction Management before he Your feedback is important. No matter how much realized that writing interactive fiction provided a testing we do, it seems that some bugs never crawl better outlet for a hyper-active imagination. By the into view until thousands of you begin doing all those time you read this, Steve’s fiancée Elizabeth will be wild and crazy things to the story. If you find a bug, Steve’s wife Elizabeth. He promises that, despite A or if you think the game, or a certain section of the Mind Forever Voyaging and his impending middle game, was too hard or too easy, or if you have some age, he has not lost his sense of humor, and will soon other suggestion, or if you’d just like to voice your return to the freewheeling hysteria that produced opinion of the story, drop us a note! We love every Planetfall and Sorcerer, and that co-produced The excuse to stop working, and a letter from you is just Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with Douglas Adams. such an excuse! Write to: Infocom, Inc. 125 CambridgePark Drive Cambridge, MA 02140 Attn: PRISM

Appendix F If You Have Technical Problems You can call the Infocom Technical Support Team to report “bugs” and technical problems, but not for hints to solve puzzles, at (617) 576-3190. If your disk develops a problem within 90 days after purchase, we will replace it at no charge. Otherwise, there is a replacement fee of $5.00 (U.S. funds). If you call to report a bug, please provide your release number, which you can find by typing VERSION. Please return your registration card from your AMFV package if you’d like to be on our mailing list and receive our newsletter, The New Zork Times.

24 Instruction Manual Appendix H Appendix I Copyright and Warranty Information Quick Reference Guide Limited Warranty 1. To start the story (“boot up”), see the separate This software product and the attached instructional materials are Reference Card in your AMFV package. sold “AS IS,” without warranty as to their performance. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the computer software pro- 2. When you see the prompt (>) on your screen, gram is assumed by the user. AMFV is waiting for your input. There are four kinds However, to the original purchaser of a disk prepared by Infocom of sentences or commands that AMFV understands: and carrying the Infocom label on the disk jacket, Infocom, Inc. war- rants the medium on which the program is recorded to be free from A. Movement commands: Within simulations, you defects in materials and faulty workmanship under normal use and service for a period of ninety (90) days from the date of purchase. If move from place to place just by typing the direc- during this period a defect on the medium should occur, the medium tion you want to go: N (or NORTH), E, S, W, NE, may be returned to Infocom, Inc. or to an authorized Infocom, Inc. SE, NW, SW, U (or UP), D, IN, and OUT. In your dealer, and Infocom, Inc. will replace the medium without charge to you. Your sole and exclusive remedy in the event of a defect is ex- computer state, you can change modes merely by pressly limited to replacement of the medium as provided above. saying ENTER [whatever] MODE. THE ABOVE WARRANTIES FOR GOODS ARE IN LIEU OF ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, IN- B. Actions: Just type whatever you want to do. CLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRAN- Some examples: READ THE BOOK or OPEN THE TIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND OF ANY OTHER WARRANTY OB- DOOR or LOOK THROUGH THE WINDOW. LIGATION ON THE PART OF INFOCOM, INC. IN NO EVENT Once you’re familiar with simple commands, you’ll SHALL INFOCOM, INC. OR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BEEN want to use more complex ones as described in INVOLVED IN THE CREATION AND PRODUCTION OF THIS COMPUTER SOFTWARE PROGRAM BE LIABLE FOR SUCH INDI- “Communicating with AMFV” on page 16. RECT, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SUCH AS, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF ANTICIPATED PROFITS OR C. Commands given to people: To talk to charac- BENEFITS RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THIS PROGRAM, ters in the story, type their name or description, OR ARISING OUT OF ANY BREACH OF THIS WARRANTY. then a comma, then what you want to say to SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITA- TION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO them. For example: DOCTOR JONES, GIVE ME THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THE SANDWICH or OLD MAN, FOLLOW ME. N.B. After the warranty period, a defective Infocom disk may be returned to Infocom, Inc. with a check or money order for $5.00 D. Special one-word commands such as INVEN- (U.S. funds) for replacement. TORY or DIAGNOSE. A list of these appears in the “Important Commands” appendix on page 19. Copyright The enclosed software product is copyrighted and all rights are re- 3. Important! After typing your sentence or com- served by Infocom, Inc. It is published exclusively by Infocom, Inc. mand, you must press the RETURN (or ENTER) key The distribution and sale of this product are intended for the use of the original purchaser only and for use only on the computer system before AMFV will respond. specified. Lawful users of this program are hereby licensed only to read the program from its medium into memory of a computer solely 4. At the top of your screen will be a special line for the purpose of executing the program. Copying (except for one called the status line. It tells you the name of your backup copy on those systems which provide for it—see Reference current mode and location, as well as the current Card), duplicating, selling, or otherwise distributing this product is a violation of the law. time and date. At times, the status line will provide This manual and all other documentation contained herein are copy- other information as well. righted and all rights are reserved by Infocom, Inc. These documents may not, in whole or in part, be copied, photocopied, reproduced, 5. You can pick up and carry many of the items you’ll translated, or reduced to any electronic medium or machine-readable find in the simulations. For example, if you type TAKE form without prior consent, in writing, from Infocom, Inc. THE SPOON, you will be carrying it. Type INVEN- Willful violations of the Copyright Law of the United States can result in civil damages of up to $50,000 in addition to actual damages, TORY to find out what you have. plus criminal penalties of up to one year imprisonment and/or $10,000 fine. 6. When you want to stop playing, save your place for Planetfall, A Mind Forever Voyaging and Sorcerer are trademarks of later, or start over, read the “Starting and Stopping” Infocom, Inc. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a registered section on page 18. trademark of Douglas Adams. © 1985 Infocom, Inc. 7. If you have trouble playing, refer to the specific Printed in U.S.A. section of the manual for more detailed instructions.

© 2001 Activision, Inc. Reproduced with permission. All right reserved.

Instruction Manual 25

Item #603475 Valid March 15-31, 2031

PRISM PROJECT FACILITY Class One Security Mode Access Decoder

Wheel # 89 61 50 18 29 52 46 77 27 68 22 95 40 58 15 86 28 33 94 11 64 98 34 49 60 16 85 52 37 53 93 91 Dk. Green 73 36 90 41 19 48 62 92 55 23 84 99 57 20 78 67 51 88 17 31 70 39 96 25 81 83 47 54 13 43 12 66 Blue 90 41 19 48 62 92 55 23 84 99 57 20 78 67 51 88 17 31 70 39 96 25 81 83 47 54 13 43 12 66 73 36 Pink 19 48 62 92 55 23 84 99 57 20 78 67 51 88 17 31 70 39 96 25 81 83 47 54 13 43 12 66 73 36 90 41 Orange 62 92 55 23 84 99 57 20 78 67 51 88 17 31 70 39 96 25 81 83 47 54 13 43 12 66 73 36 90 41 19 48 Purple 55 23 84 99 57 20 78 67 51 88 17 31 70 39 96 25 81 83 47 54 13 43 12 66 73 36 90 41 19 48 62 92 Tan 84 99 57 20 78 67 51 88 17 31 70 39 96 25 81 83 47 54 13 43 12 66 73 36 90 41 19 48 62 92 55 23 Aqua 57 20 78 67 51 88 17 31 70 39 96 25 81 83 47 54 13 43 12 66 73 36 90 41 19 48 62 92 55 23 84 99 Lt. Blue 78 67 51 88 17 31 70 39 96 25 81 83 47 54 13 43 12 66 73 36 90 41 19 48 62 92 55 23 84 99 57 20 Lt. Green 51 88 17 31 70 39 96 25 81 83 47 54 13 43 12 66 73 36 90 41 19 48 62 92 55 23 84 99 57 20 78 67 Lt. Grey 17 31 70 39 96 25 81 83 47 54 13 43 12 66 73 36 90 41 19 48 62 92 55 23 84 99 57 20 78 67 51 88 Yellow 70 39 96 25 81 83 47 54 13 43 12 66 73 36 90 41 19 48 62 92 55 23 84 99 57 20 78 67 51 88 17 31 Black 96 25 81 83 47 54 13 43 12 66 73 36 90 41 19 48 62 92 55 23 84 99 57 20 78 67 51 88 17 31 70 39 Dk. Grey 81 83 47 54 13 43 12 66 73 36 90 41 19 48 62 92 55 23 84 99 57 20 78 67 51 88 17 31 70 39 96 25 Brown 47 54 13 43 12 66 73 36 90 41 19 48 62 92 55 23 84 99 57 20 78 67 51 88 17 31 70 39 96 25 81 83 Red 13 43 12 66 73 36 90 41 19 48 62 92 55 23 84 99 57 20 78 67 51 88 17 31 70 39 96 25 81 83 47 54 White 12 66 73 36 90 41 19 48 62 92 55 23 84 99 57 20 78 67 51 88 17 31 70 39 96 25 81 83 47 54 13 43

Instructions for use: a) Select indicated color. b) Locate indicated number on top line. c) Read corresponding number from the appropriate column/row. d) Use this number to gain access to any PRISM Project Class One Security Mode.

FOR AUTHORIZED USE ONLY Project PRISM project Security. Do not leave this matrix in an unsecured area!

M A P O F

S O U T H D A K O T A

Jewel of the Quad-State Area

CLOUD-NINE

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GENERAL EXCITING ATTRACTIONS CRAIG L. MANVILLE ARMY BASE ROCKVIL IN ROCKVIL HIGH ROCKVIL SCHOOL STADIUM Jewel of the Quad States AIRPORTWAY SYMPHONY HALL ACME COMPUTER CORP.—Visit this genuine 20th century computer factory, still a major employer in the Rockvil area. AQUARIUM DRIVE AQUARIUM—Hundreds of marine crea- tures cavort in the large central tank of ROCKVIL AQUARIUM ZOOLOGICAL this popular attraction. GARDEN RIVERSIDE HALLEY MUSEUM—Halley Museum’s PARK HALLEY PARK BODANSKI BLVD. outstanding collection of classical art RAILROAD is complemented by exhibits on modern MUSEUM art, science and engineering, natural NORTH CENTRAL history, and human history. HUANG STATION HALL HUANG HALL—Huang Hall’s ultra- HALLEY DRIVE MIDLAND AVENUE modern auditorium, the largest in the

CENTRE STREET quad state area, provides an ideal set- HALLEY MUSEUM ting for cultural and artistic events as MIDLAND INFOTECH CHURCH CEMETARY well as conventions and trade shows. BUILDING STREET CITY HALL MAIN STREET INFOTECH BUILDING—Marvel at this MAIN ST. 130-story office tower, the tallest build- BRIDGE ing in Rockvil and the sixth tallest in ROCKVIL GOVERNOR FERON B. SMITH MEMORIAL HIGHWAY (I the world. UNIV. UNIVERSITY KENNEDY AVENUE PARK

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LITTLE MISSOURI RIVER MISSOURI LITTLE stained glass windows and marble statu- DOWNTOWN - 27) AR K DRIVE ary add to the grandeur of this century- ROCKVIL 1 SCALE: 1´´ = /8 mile INDUSTRIAL P old place of worship. This map provided courtesy of the CLOUD NINE WICKER DRIVE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN—Spend a SKYCAR RENTAL COMPANY Printed in USNA, 11/2030 peaceful afternoon wandering amongst the herbal displays and natural animal RIVER ST. BRIDGE habitats of the zoo.

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