Chapter 14, Teaser #1

[Bob Schroeck]

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Why start with a combat boomer?

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It's what IDEC had on hand, left over from when they were chasing him, and they could get it to him without raising any audit flags within GENOM. They don't do boomer work, officially, at IDEC, and a requisition for a boomer would go right across Madigan's desk -- something Ohara expressly does not want.

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Did I read that right in the last chapter, that the only reason IDEC's Boomers went berserk during the hostage situation was the addition of the three Laws of Robotics?

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Not specifically the three laws, but because their people were generally mucking about in a very tightly-wound and complicated system. They were doing the software equivalent of opening up the hood of a running car, and throwing carefully chosen parts at carefully chosen locations on the engine, in the hopes they'd stick and improve performance.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.