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![]() The City Fathers were able to answer most natural language questions directed at them because they were allowed to monitor all conversations within the city.
The City Fathers could also censor conversations, depending on the situation:
"OVERRIDE," the City Fathers said suddenly, without being asked anything at all.
"Woof! Sorry. Either I've already said one word too many, or I was going to. Can't say anything else, Chris."
"But I thought they never volunteered information."
"They don't," Anderson said. "That wasn't volunteered. They are under orders from Amalfi to monitor talk about this situation and shut it up when it begins to get too loose..."
I think that if you participate in services like Google Mail, you might be participating in a similar machine surveillance system.
Memory was cheap:
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