The bird is both a culmination of human culture and a destructive force that can cause natural disasters powerful enough to leave human beings trembling in its wake. Hurakan incarnate”? The “bird of winds,” and the diverse breadth of mythology (Norse, Middle Eastern, Mayan) from which AM could have pulled to create the such a creature, comes to represent AM’s total domination of the human race, as it shows that the computer holds the power to both harness humanity’s knowledge base and to destroy the species entirely. Could it have come from “Norse mythology this eagle, this carrion bird, this roc, this Huergelmir. Ted contemplates out of the seemingly infinite amount of knowledge AM possesses and the origins of its idea for this horrific monstrosity.
It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. ' I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream ' is a post-apocalyptic science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. As a human-created supercomputer, the reader can deduce that AM has access to information about the entire pantheon of human gods, religions, and mythologies that have ever existed. Print ( Magazine, Hardback & Paperback) Publication date. Ted wonders where AM could have come up with such a concept. The premise is that its 109 years after humanity had the genius idea to build a computer, give it complete control of the worlds weapons, and then let it become self-aware. To torment the group along its journey to the ice caverns, AM creates an immense bird whose flapping wings cause a hurricane in which the group members are caught and injured. Even amidst all possible torments, AM actively chooses images and creative depictions that the humans will recognize from various past mythologies on Earth. The “bird of winds” symbolizes the duality of AM as both a product and a destroyer of humanity.
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