THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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contained all human knowledge. It was capable of scanning all its data
instantaneously, and combining, and forming associations, and reasoning
with absolute accuracy, and extrapolating to produce new facts, and
predicting future events, and ..."

And if you'd asked such a computer, "Is there a God?" it would have
simply answered, "Present."

"We'd have won the War, except for Merlin," Zareff was declaring.

"Conn, from what you've learned of computers generally,[Pg 17] how big
would Merlin have to be?" old Professor Kellton asked.

"Well, the astrophysics computer at the University occupied a volume of
a hundred thousand cubic feet. For all Merlin was supposed to do, I'd
say something of the order of three million to five million.