the teaching machines

can trace their software heritage back to the programming projects at the University of California in the 2020's.....in fact, when the Treaty Powers first started building and launching the hammership orbitals towards Mars, the educational system for the migrant ship population had been administered under a contract arrangement with U.C. San Diego. But once the whole rotation was up and running, things were formalized under Orbital Authority, and the present Orbital University system was established. So here at O.U. we have legacy systems with roots almost 70 years back in time to the original Intelligent Teaching Program, written by a team in Oakland. Somewhere in that time frame the machines started "self-writing".....which has led to philosophical and practical complications, as you might imagine....there are humans who do not really trust what the machines might be up to....what are they teaching the kids? I was reading a thing about deeply embedded data bombs.....apparantly some of the original Oakland programmers claim to have been associated with the Bay Area Neoradical movement....they say that if the machines get too uppity, they will broadcast codes that will blow their minds.....