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...surges" an eastern task force into the Indian Ocean. This includes an aircraft-carrier strike group, a convoy escort group, attack submarines and antisubmarine patrol planes. The Soviet forces in the area include land-based bombers, missile-firing submarines, cruisers, destroyers and high-speed missile boats. The computer???the Warfare Analysis and Research System (WARS)?projects a display of the positions, speeds and courses of the ships involved on two 15-ft. screens on the back wall of the big room...
...Americans served and shielded by machines at every turn, each silent switch and powerless push button was a taunt. Two of modern technology's paramount deities?the dynamo and the digital computer???had defected simultaneously. Yet Northeasterners wasted little time lamenting their betrayal by the machine. Instead, with a high sense of shared adventure, they set about the unfamiliar task of using legs and arms to help themselves and their fellow men. If in the process the 20th century American learned belatedly to mistrust the complex mechanics by which he lives, he also acquired new faith in his humanity...
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