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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
end.
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 won the war for Earth: the giant strategy computer known as
Multivac, or the men in charge of making the maneuvers and programming
the computer. John Henderson is an excitable man, while Lamar Swift, the
military captain, is calm but rational. While the people hailed the computer,
the two really knew who the heroes were.
Henderson explained the fact that Multivac was nothing more than a
large machine, only capable of doing what it was programmed to do. He
stated that ever since the beginning of the war, he had been hiding a secret. It
was the fact that some of its (Multivac’s) data might have been unreliable.
This conflict, as you will note......

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