Zeus and Io - Book 3
Copyright© 2014 by Harry Carton
Chapter 3: #17, Highway of the People, Shanghai, China
Colonel Sun of the People's Army looked at the printouts for the twentieth time this morning.
"You are sure of this?" he asked Fa Lao-Sung Fa, the project leader on the artificial intelligence project, code named Chaing.
"Oh yes, Colonel. He will be ready for release into the internet by February." Chaing was close to completion. He needed only a few minor tweaks in his error handling routines – those that would reset his 'thinking' after an unexpected development. The Chaing project was already a 'he.' It was interesting to 'talk' to him on the mainframe.
"Your first test will be... ?" asked the Colonel.
"As discussed," said Fa. "The Americans still do not have adequate protection of their power grid. The Canadians even more so. We will shut down the Niagara electric generating company. It will be staged to coincide with an electrical storm. We will have to wait for that event. Simultaneously, we will shut down the electrical system from Montreal to Detroit to Boston to Washington, D.C. It will take them at least a week to recover."
"And our investment in American bonds and securities will suffer, yes?" This was addressed to Ms. Xeng Dun-Wa, the leader of the financial element of this attack.
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