7.0 - Voice

[no_fastolfe]

[Private to Chromie]
Madam, I've been directed by my warden to seek work. Since I am already somewhat familiar with the library, I would like to know if there is room for another among your staff. The lab is full and I do not want to work with the ill or with food.

[Private to Sherlock] (after the successful conclusion of the discussion with Chromie)
I have employment, as dictated. The lab being rather saturated, Chromie has accepted my help in the library.

Comments

[strangehistorian]

I like to familiarize myself with the layout - harder than it sounds, the library seems to expand as you explore it - and help people if they're looking for books. We used to go out and [clear throat] enforce book returns, but without the Goddess, I don't think anyone has the taste for that any more.

[no_fastolfe]

A-ah.

I could automate reminders on their communication devices? Sufficiently... attention catching ones?

[strangehistorian]

Oh, that would be wonderful! Goodness knows I wouldn't know how to do that.

[no_fastolfe]

I can code it in an evening. ...whether I will be granted access by the Admiral to put it onto a communicator is quite another thing. But perhaps if a computer terminal could be added to the network...

[strangehistorian]

I'm not familiar with that term. Hold on just a moment.

[A beat as she flips back in her mental copy of Brittanica.]

Ah! A device to enable the operator to see and correct the words as they are being typed into a computer by a keyboard.

...Now, what is a computer?

[no_fastolfe]

[Vasilia's lips go thin, the impression rather like she's eaten something sour. But she reigns it in.]

A computer is a... logical processor. Consisting generally of a keyboard for input, a screen and possibly printer for output, and the ability to quickly perform billions of mathematical and logical operations. [She holds up her sleek little communicator] This is a computer, although not a very powerful one, and it is specialized to communications.

...you really should have one in the library, it would make recording the new books easier. [Haha, Vasilia, assuming a database could keep up with this particular library]

[strangehistorian]

Ah! I see, thank you. All of the definitions in the book are very recursive. I think we may invent something similar on Azeroth!

[no_fastolfe]

Are you close, presently? Such computing is the first step dowager true automation--which allows hu- the species possessing it to advance geometrically once achieved.

[strangehistorian]

We do have crude automaton constructs, but they tend to be clumsy and prone to explosions.

[no_fastolfe]

Based on mechanical logic, I assume?

[strangehistorian]

I really do not know, I have only seen completed ones. I would assume so.

[Fade?]

[no_fastolfe]

I think I should like to see one one day!