Analysis Of The Machine That W
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“The Machine That Won the War,” by Isaac Asimov, is a story that
teaches a valuable lesson about humanity and also has an ironic twist at the
The setting is the future of Earth, and a great war had just been won
against an enemy race. Two men, Swift and Henderson, are debating over
who really w ....
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.... great computer was capable of creating a direct battle plan which
Earth forces could use to attack their enemies. However, with Henderson
inputting faulty data, this caused some of the battle plans to be unreliable. His
internal conflict between himself losing his job and wanting to keep it made
him jingle with the programming until it seemed right.
This foreshadowing helps the reader to see that someone is going to
have to act upon Henderson’s faults if the war is to be won. Swift, ....
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