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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Joy Ride + +Author: Mark Meadows + +Illustrator: Dick Francis + +Release Date: April 12, 2010 [EBook #31961] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOY RIDE *** + + + + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="tr"><p class="center">Transcriber's Note:</p> +<p class="center">This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction December 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.</p></div> +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img class="img1" src="images/cover.jpg" width="400" height="525" alt="" title="" /> +</div> +<p> </p> +<h1>joy ride</h1> +<p> </p> +<h2>By MARK MEADOWS</h2> +<p> </p> +<h3>Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS</h3> +<p> </p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>Men or machines—something had to give—though not +necessarily one or the other. Why not both?</p></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">(historian's note:</span> <i>The following statements are extracted from +depositions taken by the Commission of Formal Inquiry appointed by the +Peloric Rehabilitation Council, a body formed as a provisional +government in the third month of the Calamity</i>.)</p> + + +<h2>1</h2> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_m1.jpg" alt="M" width="55" height="50" /></div> +<p>y name is Andrews, third assistant vice president in charge of +maintenance for Cybernetic Publishers.</p> + +<p>It is not generally known that all the periodical publications for the +world were put out by Cybernetics. We did not conceal the monopoly +deliberately, but we found that using the names of other publishing +houses helped to give our magazines an impression of variety. Of +course, we didn't want too much variety, either; only the tried and +tested kind.</p> + +<p>Cybernetics gained its monopoly by cutting costs of production. It had +succeeded in linking electronic calculators to photo-copying +machines. Through this combination, all kinds of texts and +illustrations could be produced automatically.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_f.jpg" alt="F" width="33" height="40" /></div> +<p>ormula punch cards, fed to the calculators, produced articles and +stories of standard styles and substance. Market analysts in the +research division designed the formulas for the punch cards. An +editing machine shuffled the cards before giving them to the +calculating machines.</p> + +<p>The shuffling produced enough variation in the final product to +suggest novelty to the reader without actually presenting anything +strange or unexpected.</p> + +<p>Once the cards were in the machine, they set off electronic impulses +which, by a scanning process, projected photographic images of type +and illustrations to a ribbon of paper. This ribbon ran through a +battery of xerographic machines to reproduce the exact number of +copies specified by the market indicator.</p> + +<p>Everything worked smoothly without the necessity for thought, which, +as you know, is expensive and often wasteful.</p> + +<p>In the second week of the Calamity, one machine after another seemed +to go put of order. I couldn't tell whether the trouble was in the +cards, in the research office, or in the machines.</p> + +<p>First, one produced something entitled "A Critique of the Bureaucratic +Culture Pattern." Then another would give out nothing but lyric poems. +A third simply printed obvious gibberish, the letters F-R-E-E-D-O-M. +And one of our oldest machines ran off a series of limericks of a +decidedly pungent flavor.</p> + +<p>I did all I could to straighten them out. Even our cleaning compounds +were analyzed for traces of alcohol. But we weren't able to locate the +trouble. And we didn't dare shut off the power because that would have +backed up our continuous stream of pulp and paper all the way to +Canada, Alaska and Scandinavia. There didn't seem to be anything to do +but let the publications go on through to the distribution center.</p> + +<p>Before they were returned to the pulp mills, some of the publications +reached private hands and created something of a stir, especially the +limericks. One of them went something like this: "There was a +young...." (Passage defaced.)</p> + + +<h2>2</h2> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_m.jpg" alt="M" width="43" height="40" /></div> +<p>y name is Minton, traffic officer emeritus on the Extrapolated +Parkway.</p> + +<p>The Parkway was equipped with the usual electronic controls to propel +cars magnetically, to maintain a safe distance between all cars, and +to hold them automatically in their proper lanes. The controls also +turned cars off the Parkways at the proper exit, according to the +settings on the individual automobile's direction-finder.</p> + +<p>On the ninth day of the Calamity, the controls became erratic. Cars +ran off the highway at the wrong exits, even though their +direction-finders seemed to be in good order. Many turned around in +circles at entrances to the Parkway and failed to enter. Drivers +abandoned cars in despair and actually made their way on foot. Those +who remembered how to steer by hand, mainly persons with obsolete +cars, were able to travel by using back country roads. It was almost +like old times, when we used to have accidents.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile, I kept getting radio calls from motorists whose cars were +trapped on the highway. They were unable to turn off anywhere, even at +the wrong exit. The magnetic propellers forced them to continue +traveling a circular route for hours. I don't know what they expected +<i>me</i> to do about it.</p> + +<p>They tried to say I tampered with the controls, but I had no such +orders. There was nothing in the Traffic Officer's Manual to cover +this situation, so I naturally did nothing.</p> + +<p>Anyway, I think that the trouble lay with the direction-finders in the +cars rather than with the Highway Controls. For several days +previously, a great many cars no matter how the automatic +direction-finders were set, had been known to head for water if they +weren't watched. Because of the fact that so many motorists had formed +a habit of snoozing, once the car was in motion, there were a number +of drownings. If we could have done anything to prevent them, we +probably would have, though that wasn't our job.</p> + + +<h2>3</h2> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_m.jpg" alt="M" width="43" height="40" /></div> +<p>y name is Elder, sound director for Station 40 N 180.</p> + +<p>We had noticed nothing unusual about our broadcasts until the third +day of the Calamity. That was the first time one of our +ultra-sensitive microphones began to pick up and broadcast speeches +from unknown sources.</p> + +<p>Our third assistant monitor was the first to notice. He called and +told me that interference was disrupting the program. A few minutes +later, he said that the sponsor's message, as broadcast, did not +conform to the copy which had been put on the tape. (To eliminate +studio errors, all our broadcast programs were first recorded on +electro-magnetic tape and edited before they were released.)</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/image_001.jpg" width="400" height="559" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>We checked and found that none of the commercial messages were going +through properly. The fact is that they were broadcast very +improperly.</p> + +<p>I tested the microphone myself and was reported as saying, "What +difference does it make?" I had used the conventional testing phrases, +"One, two, three, four," yet all three monitors swore that the other +sentence had been uttered in my voice.</p> + +<p>We switched at once to broadcasting music exclusively as an +alternative to verbal programs, but the microphones continued to +pickup vocal interference. The voices were of many kinds and not +always distinct. They sounded sincere and the words were plain, but I +could not discern any meaning in them.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_f.jpg" alt="F" width="33" height="40" /></div> +<p>or a while, until the Calamity affected wire communications, too, we +received telephone comments from our audience.</p> + +<p>A few people complained about the confusion, but most asked us to turn +off the music and let the voices come through clearly.</p> + +<p>One of the listeners said to us, "I haven't heard men speak their +minds so plainly since the morning Grandma wrecked Grandpa's new +helicopter."</p> + + +<h2>4</h2> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_m.jpg" alt="M" width="43" height="40" /></div> +<p>y name is Wilson. I manned the remote control panel for the +Duplicator Construction Company.</p> + +<p>As you know, we directed a battery of building machines which erected +mass housing projects. I directed only the destination of our +machines. Once I sent them to a site, they completed their work +automatically with the materials installed at our supply depot.</p> + +<p>A single machine could prepare a site and erect a complete house in +one day. With an army of 5,000 machines, our firm had succeeded in +building as many houses as there was room for, and we had started on +the demolition of our original buildings for replacement with the +modern economy-size model. This made room for three families where one +had lived before. We started this replacement program the week before +the Calamity.</p> + +<p>The first hint of trouble was a call from a checker to the front +office. I happened to be there when he appeared on the vid-screen and +said that one of our machines had built a Chinese pagoda. He seemed to +think it was funny.</p> + +<p>Then we began to receive other reports. Our machines were building +grape arbors, covered bridges, cloisters, music halls, green houses, +dancing pavilions and hunting lodges.</p> + +<p>One machine was not building at all, but had gone on a rampage, +clearing ground where we had just completed one thousand of the new +economy-size dwelling units.</p> + +<p>The machine was dynamited by our emergency squad.</p> + + +<h2>5</h2> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_m.jpg" alt="M" width="43" height="40" /></div> +<p>y name is Fisher. On the first day of the Calamity, I was a member of an +audience which had been employed by the Spectacle Commission to observe the +start of the Forty-Ton-Shovel-Cross-Continent-Ditch-Digging Contest.</p> + +<p>This was the first time that power shovels of this size had been used +to dig a ditch more than a thousand miles long. I was very proud to be +in that audience.</p> + +<p>The contest started on time. The shovels were marshaled and on their +marks at the city line. The Mayor fired a disarmed war rocket as the +signal to start.</p> + +<p>And then the shovels, instead of biting into the dirt, turned at right +angles and began to chew a path through the paid audience.</p> + +<p>This was not called for in the contract and many hired spectators ran +away in fright, but a few of us had enough professional pride to stand +by. We watched as the shovels cut an irregular path through streets, +parks and open lots in the city snapping at everything in their way +until they reached the water-front.</p> + +<p>I thought they would stop at the docks. The leaders <i>did</i> pause, until +all the shovels had come abreast. Then, as if they had a common +impulse, they rolled into the harbor and sank in unison.</p> + +<p>As I later said to my wife, it was quite extraordinary.</p> + + +<h2>6</h2> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_m.jpg" alt="M" width="43" height="40" /></div> +<p>y name is Danville. I was watching a colorvision program on the first +day of the Calamity.</p> + +<p>The program was a wrestling match between a woman and a bear. The bear +was winning when the screen went dark. The announcer's voice faded and +I heard what sounded like the chatter of my neighbors. When the screen +lit up again, it showed my own home. The door opened to reveal the +hallway to the dining room, where I could see my wife sewing a patch +on my son's pants. Then I saw my daughter experimenting on fudge in +the food laboratory and my boy working on a bomb model. What surprised +me most was a picture of myself staring at myself on the screen.</p> + +<p>This wasn't very interesting to me, so I tried some of the other +stations. No matter where I tuned in, though, I found myself looking +at a part of my own home. I wrote a letter of complaint to the +Universal Program Commission, but never even got an answer.</p> + + +<h2>7</h2> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_i.jpg" alt="I" width="19" height="40" /></div> +<p> am sorry that I do not remember my name. I have been employed a long +time in the Classified Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and have been +under security orders to speak to no one except in answer to official +queries. As I am the only scholar in my field—the polarity of the +positron—I have never been asked for information. If I had been, +perhaps I would not have forgotten my name, but I cannot be sure. I +don't know whether the replies are signed.</p> + +<p>I could have prevented the Calamity. I tried. I risked my life in the +attempt. But at the moment when it seemed I might succeed, something +happened which I must try to explain.</p> + +<p>First let me tell you why I knew what would happen.</p> + +<p>My studies of minute particles led me to believe that machines might +exert some form of choice. Simply because aggregates have always +behaved predictably, I could not assume they always would. Even though +the masses of men behaved as expected, I remember that, in my +grandfather's time, individual persons frequently departed from +established courses. What the individual could do, I felt the mass or +the machine might do.</p> + +<p>As you know, these were subversive views, running directly counter to +the cult of the Statisticians, which was based entirely on the +predictability of mass behavior.</p> + +<p>The cult of the Statisticians was strong because it produced results. +By employing Statisticians, the contending armies in the Peripheral +Wars predicted each other's movements so accurately that they +eliminated the possibility of surprise. Thus the Statisticians +produced the military impasse which destroyed the prestige of +political leadership. From that time on, Statisticians filled the +posts of government.</p> + +<p>The success of the Statisticians proved their undoing. They claimed +that they could create a perfect system without conflict or accident. +They fondly believed that with the feedback in the electron brain, +they could anticipate and correct all deviations in behavior, human or +mechanical.</p> + +<p>They might have succeeded, if not for a fundamental error.</p> + +<p>I discovered this error as soon as the plans for the fiscal century +were published. The design of the electron brain had completely +ignored the polarity of the positron. In the total fiscal complex, +this factor permits any aggregate to choose its own course. But the +error was not immediately obvious to the Statisticians. It remained +subtle and concealed until multiplied beyond control.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_n.jpg" alt="N" width="37" height="40" /></div> +<p>aturally, I prepared a report to predict to my chiefs the dangers +embedded in this plan for a perfect world. I predicted that the +machines would make their own decisions, even though most men long ago +had lost that power. I even warned them that the ancient concept of +"free will," now forbidden, would return to destroy them. These were +the facts I offered.</p> + +<p>The report was never delivered.</p> + +<p>I'd hardly put my seal on the document when the automatic security +guard closed in. The document was seized and I was bound gagged and +thrown onto a conveyor belt. I saw myself on the way to the eraser. +Only the polarity of the positron saved me. Desperately, on my way out +of the laboratory, I kicked a single switch.</p> + +<p>Instead of taking me to my punishment, the conveyor belt converted +itself into a joy ride. The gag fell out. My bonds dissolved. The +Calamity had begun.</p> + +<p>The joy ride carried me to witness many of the events reported to this +Commission. And then it tossed me directly into the center of the +office of the Chiefs. I had one more opportunity to tell my story, to +save the system.</p> + +<p>Given a second choice, I reconsidered.</p> + +<p>Had a perfect system been to my taste, I'd have died cheerfully to +save it. But the Calamity excited me. I relished its surprises and +adventures, even its hazards. I remember the old peasant proverb, +"When life is perfect, it is time to die." And I decided I'd rather +live.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">historian's note:</span><i> At this point, the Commission abruptly closed its +hearings. The unnamed physicist was charged with treason and ordered +executed on the spot. His life was saved, however, by Rioters +representing the New Disorder, which, upon seizing power, decreed that +the Calamity should henceforth be called the Blessing.</i></p> + +<p><i>The physicist was rewarded by being made head of the government. He +served two distinguished terms as President Nameless, which was the +origin of the Presidential title of address, "Your Namelessness."</i></p> + +<p><i>The Commission, of course, was sent to Erasure.</i></p> + +<p class="p1"><b>—MARK MEADOWS</b></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Joy Ride, by Mark Meadows + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOY RIDE *** + +***** This file should be named 31961-h.htm or 31961-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/1/9/6/31961/ + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Joy Ride + +Author: Mark Meadows + +Illustrator: Dick Francis + +Release Date: April 12, 2010 [EBook #31961] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOY RIDE *** + + + + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction December 1954. + Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. + + + joy ride + + + By MARK MEADOWS + + + Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS + + + Men or machines--something had to give--though not + necessarily one or the other. Why not both? + + * * * * * + + + + +(HISTORIAN'S NOTE: _The following statements are extracted from +depositions taken by the Commission of Formal Inquiry appointed by the +Peloric Rehabilitation Council, a body formed as a provisional +government in the third month of the Calamity_.) + + +1 + +My name is Andrews, third assistant vice president in charge of +maintenance for Cybernetic Publishers. + +It is not generally known that all the periodical publications for the +world were put out by Cybernetics. We did not conceal the monopoly +deliberately, but we found that using the names of other publishing +houses helped to give our magazines an impression of variety. Of +course, we didn't want too much variety, either; only the tried and +tested kind. + +Cybernetics gained its monopoly by cutting costs of production. It had +succeeded in linking electronic calculators to photo-copying +machines. Through this combination, all kinds of texts and +illustrations could be produced automatically. + + * * * * * + +Formula punch cards, fed to the calculators, produced articles and +stories of standard styles and substance. Market analysts in the +research division designed the formulas for the punch cards. An +editing machine shuffled the cards before giving them to the +calculating machines. + +The shuffling produced enough variation in the final product to +suggest novelty to the reader without actually presenting anything +strange or unexpected. + +Once the cards were in the machine, they set off electronic impulses +which, by a scanning process, projected photographic images of type +and illustrations to a ribbon of paper. This ribbon ran through a +battery of xerographic machines to reproduce the exact number of +copies specified by the market indicator. + +Everything worked smoothly without the necessity for thought, which, +as you know, is expensive and often wasteful. + +In the second week of the Calamity, one machine after another seemed +to go put of order. I couldn't tell whether the trouble was in the +cards, in the research office, or in the machines. + +First, one produced something entitled "A Critique of the Bureaucratic +Culture Pattern." Then another would give out nothing but lyric poems. +A third simply printed obvious gibberish, the letters F-R-E-E-D-O-M. +And one of our oldest machines ran off a series of limericks of a +decidedly pungent flavor. + +I did all I could to straighten them out. Even our cleaning compounds +were analyzed for traces of alcohol. But we weren't able to locate the +trouble. And we didn't dare shut off the power because that would have +backed up our continuous stream of pulp and paper all the way to +Canada, Alaska and Scandinavia. There didn't seem to be anything to do +but let the publications go on through to the distribution center. + +Before they were returned to the pulp mills, some of the publications +reached private hands and created something of a stir, especially the +limericks. One of them went something like this: "There was a +young...." (Passage defaced.) + + +2 + +My name is Minton, traffic officer emeritus on the Extrapolated +Parkway. + +The Parkway was equipped with the usual electronic controls to propel +cars magnetically, to maintain a safe distance between all cars, and +to hold them automatically in their proper lanes. The controls also +turned cars off the Parkways at the proper exit, according to the +settings on the individual automobile's direction-finder. + +On the ninth day of the Calamity, the controls became erratic. Cars +ran off the highway at the wrong exits, even though their +direction-finders seemed to be in good order. Many turned around in +circles at entrances to the Parkway and failed to enter. Drivers +abandoned cars in despair and actually made their way on foot. Those +who remembered how to steer by hand, mainly persons with obsolete +cars, were able to travel by using back country roads. It was almost +like old times, when we used to have accidents. + +Meanwhile, I kept getting radio calls from motorists whose cars were +trapped on the highway. They were unable to turn off anywhere, even at +the wrong exit. The magnetic propellers forced them to continue +traveling a circular route for hours. I don't know what they expected +_me_ to do about it. + +They tried to say I tampered with the controls, but I had no such +orders. There was nothing in the Traffic Officer's Manual to cover +this situation, so I naturally did nothing. + +Anyway, I think that the trouble lay with the direction-finders in the +cars rather than with the Highway Controls. For several days +previously, a great many cars no matter how the automatic +direction-finders were set, had been known to head for water if they +weren't watched. Because of the fact that so many motorists had formed +a habit of snoozing, once the car was in motion, there were a number +of drownings. If we could have done anything to prevent them, we +probably would have, though that wasn't our job. + + +3 + +MY name is Elder, sound director for Station 40 N 180. + +We had noticed nothing unusual about our broadcasts until the third +day of the Calamity. That was the first time one of our +ultra-sensitive microphones began to pick up and broadcast speeches +from unknown sources. + +Our third assistant monitor was the first to notice. He called and +told me that interference was disrupting the program. A few minutes +later, he said that the sponsor's message, as broadcast, did not +conform to the copy which had been put on the tape. (To eliminate +studio errors, all our broadcast programs were first recorded on +electro-magnetic tape and edited before they were released.) + +[Illustration] + +We checked and found that none of the commercial messages were going +through properly. The fact is that they were broadcast very +improperly. + +I tested the microphone myself and was reported as saying, "What +difference does it make?" I had used the conventional testing phrases, +"One, two, three, four," yet all three monitors swore that the other +sentence had been uttered in my voice. + +We switched at once to broadcasting music exclusively as an +alternative to verbal programs, but the microphones continued to +pickup vocal interference. The voices were of many kinds and not +always distinct. They sounded sincere and the words were plain, but I +could not discern any meaning in them. + + * * * * * + +For a while, until the Calamity affected wire communications, too, we +received telephone comments from our audience. + +A few people complained about the confusion, but most asked us to turn +off the music and let the voices come through clearly. + +One of the listeners said to us, "I haven't heard men speak their +minds so plainly since the morning Grandma wrecked Grandpa's new +helicopter." + + +4 + +My name is Wilson. I manned the remote control panel for the +Duplicator Construction Company. + +As you know, we directed a battery of building machines which erected +mass housing projects. I directed only the destination of our +machines. Once I sent them to a site, they completed their work +automatically with the materials installed at our supply depot. + +A single machine could prepare a site and erect a complete house in +one day. With an army of 5,000 machines, our firm had succeeded in +building as many houses as there was room for, and we had started on +the demolition of our original buildings for replacement with the +modern economy-size model. This made room for three families where one +had lived before. We started this replacement program the week before +the Calamity. + +The first hint of trouble was a call from a checker to the front +office. I happened to be there when he appeared on the vid-screen and +said that one of our machines had built a Chinese pagoda. He seemed to +think it was funny. + +Then we began to receive other reports. Our machines were building +grape arbors, covered bridges, cloisters, music halls, green houses, +dancing pavilions and hunting lodges. + +One machine was not building at all, but had gone on a rampage, +clearing ground where we had just completed one thousand of the new +economy-size dwelling units. + +The machine was dynamited by our emergency squad. + + +5 + +My name is Fisher. On the first day of the Calamity, I was a member of an +audience which had been employed by the Spectacle Commission to observe the +start of the Forty-Ton-Shovel-Cross-Continent-Ditch-Digging Contest. + +This was the first time that power shovels of this size had been used +to dig a ditch more than a thousand miles long. I was very proud to be +in that audience. + +The contest started on time. The shovels were marshaled and on their +marks at the city line. The Mayor fired a disarmed war rocket as the +signal to start. + +And then the shovels, instead of biting into the dirt, turned at right +angles and began to chew a path through the paid audience. + +This was not called for in the contract and many hired spectators ran +away in fright, but a few of us had enough professional pride to stand +by. We watched as the shovels cut an irregular path through streets, +parks and open lots in the city snapping at everything in their way +until they reached the water-front. + +I thought they would stop at the docks. The leaders _did_ pause, until +all the shovels had come abreast. Then, as if they had a common +impulse, they rolled into the harbor and sank in unison. + +As I later said to my wife, it was quite extraordinary. + + +6 + +My name is Danville. I was watching a colorvision program on the first +day of the Calamity. + +The program was a wrestling match between a woman and a bear. The bear +was winning when the screen went dark. The announcer's voice faded and +I heard what sounded like the chatter of my neighbors. When the screen +lit up again, it showed my own home. The door opened to reveal the +hallway to the dining room, where I could see my wife sewing a patch +on my son's pants. Then I saw my daughter experimenting on fudge in +the food laboratory and my boy working on a bomb model. What surprised +me most was a picture of myself staring at myself on the screen. + +This wasn't very interesting to me, so I tried some of the other +stations. No matter where I tuned in, though, I found myself looking +at a part of my own home. I wrote a letter of complaint to the +Universal Program Commission, but never even got an answer. + + +7 + +I am sorry that I do not remember my name. I have been employed a long +time in the Classified Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and have been +under security orders to speak to no one except in answer to official +queries. As I am the only scholar in my field--the polarity of the +positron--I have never been asked for information. If I had been, +perhaps I would not have forgotten my name, but I cannot be sure. I +don't know whether the replies are signed. + +I could have prevented the Calamity. I tried. I risked my life in the +attempt. But at the moment when it seemed I might succeed, something +happened which I must try to explain. + +First let me tell you why I knew what would happen. + +My studies of minute particles led me to believe that machines might +exert some form of choice. Simply because aggregates have always +behaved predictably, I could not assume they always would. Even though +the masses of men behaved as expected, I remember that, in my +grandfather's time, individual persons frequently departed from +established courses. What the individual could do, I felt the mass or +the machine might do. + +As you know, these were subversive views, running directly counter to +the cult of the Statisticians, which was based entirely on the +predictability of mass behavior. + +The cult of the Statisticians was strong because it produced results. +By employing Statisticians, the contending armies in the Peripheral +Wars predicted each other's movements so accurately that they +eliminated the possibility of surprise. Thus the Statisticians +produced the military impasse which destroyed the prestige of +political leadership. From that time on, Statisticians filled the +posts of government. + +The success of the Statisticians proved their undoing. They claimed +that they could create a perfect system without conflict or accident. +They fondly believed that with the feedback in the electron brain, +they could anticipate and correct all deviations in behavior, human or +mechanical. + +They might have succeeded, if not for a fundamental error. + +I discovered this error as soon as the plans for the fiscal century +were published. The design of the electron brain had completely +ignored the polarity of the positron. In the total fiscal complex, +this factor permits any aggregate to choose its own course. But the +error was not immediately obvious to the Statisticians. It remained +subtle and concealed until multiplied beyond control. + + * * * * * + +Naturally, I prepared a report to predict to my chiefs the dangers +embedded in this plan for a perfect world. I predicted that the +machines would make their own decisions, even though most men long ago +had lost that power. I even warned them that the ancient concept of +"free will," now forbidden, would return to destroy them. These were +the facts I offered. + +The report was never delivered. + +I'd hardly put my seal on the document when the automatic security +guard closed in. The document was seized and I was bound gagged and +thrown onto a conveyor belt. I saw myself on the way to the eraser. +Only the polarity of the positron saved me. Desperately, on my way out +of the laboratory, I kicked a single switch. + +Instead of taking me to my punishment, the conveyor belt converted +itself into a joy ride. The gag fell out. My bonds dissolved. The +Calamity had begun. + +The joy ride carried me to witness many of the events reported to this +Commission. And then it tossed me directly into the center of the +office of the Chiefs. I had one more opportunity to tell my story, to +save the system. + +Given a second choice, I reconsidered. + +Had a perfect system been to my taste, I'd have died cheerfully to +save it. But the Calamity excited me. I relished its surprises and +adventures, even its hazards. I remember the old peasant proverb, +"When life is perfect, it is time to die." And I decided I'd rather +live. + +HISTORIAN'S NOTE:_ At this point, the Commission abruptly closed its +hearings. The unnamed physicist was charged with treason and ordered +executed on the spot. His life was saved, however, by Rioters +representing the New Disorder, which, upon seizing power, decreed that +the Calamity should henceforth be called the Blessing._ + +_The physicist was rewarded by being made head of the government. He +served two distinguished terms as President Nameless, which was the +origin of the Presidential title of address, "Your Namelessness._" + +_The Commission, of course, was sent to Erasure._ + + --MARK MEADOWS + + * * * * * + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Joy Ride, by Mark Meadows + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOY RIDE *** + +***** This file should be named 31961.txt or 31961.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/1/9/6/31961/ + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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