July 03, 2000 (vol. 110, iss. 47) • Page Image 5
… and election year is upon us, bear- removed their masks. They were ing down on the masses with a like two aging computer systems. I flood of rhetoric, abortion think they could have debates and trivial…
… word been Apple II's; their plays that pander to as beige cases were dis- large a constituency as pos- colored from age. sible. With campaigns run This Postmodern more by poll-reliant advis- World: How…
… think of politics as a conservative, so I - very complicated gatoe of chess. TNI' RoboGore2000? But I think of it more of a comput- How do you feel about er simulation, like IBM's Deep campaign finance…
… refons? Blue, the computer that beat the RoboGore2000: Does not world chess champion some years compete. Does not cot- back. Candidates are just the front pttte. Does not compute. men for gigantic…
… carry on a head slowly swivels around conversation with your computer. he lnges at Dubya. Dubya The answers are so fornlated that grins masiacally, morphs there's no possible way an intelli- into his…
… computing machine. He wears an American flag around his waist and is tat- tooed with dollar signs. Squinty- eyed and alarmed by my presence, he bears his teeth like a raptor and emits a long, shrill…