Breakthroughs Under Your Feet: Basic Human Emotions And Camouflage
PART 3: Artificial Intelligence and the Trouble Begins
Martin Kane itched for new breakthroughs but acquiring new programs presented a practical problem for Camp Hero: a shortage of space. Every floor had become occupied in the years since opening, and there was simply nowhere for the facility to grow. One obvious option was to eliminate the floor housing the more established scientist’s favorite candy bars, but this solution was voted down in a landslide. Martin Kane called a meeting with the most trusted members of his staff: a large teddy bear named Wallace and a full-length mirror. Save for a few cursory remarks, the bear was no help, and the full-length mirror only repeated what he said in a mocking fashion. Before boarding a plane to a private rehab facility, Martin Kane proclaimed that Camp Hero would purchase a trailer and park it behind a nearby grocery store.
As to not arouse suspicion, a Camp Hero intern would tow the camouflaged trailer from the grocery store to a neighbouring park, where it would stay for the night. The scientists would be set free in the park until dawn. The new programs housed in the trailer, Quantum Physics and Cryonics, felt disrespected by their placement in the mobile home. And they were. A majority of their work was analyzing old…