This was the picture of Vic’s Grandfather that started the current furor in the Creative Section. Vic never met him, and this is the only close-up picture that was passed down. Vic was waving around something new he had composed with the aid of the AI program to see if there is value-added in artificial intelligence. You know, the machine kind.

He scanned and uploaded the old picture and told The Archive of the Human Enterprise, or TAHE, the lowing box at the end of he conference table, to “sharpen this up, if you can.”

The box glowed, the microphone icon lit up and something appeared. This apparently is something like what J.B. Socotra looked like a hundred years ago, almost to the day:

Like the “Salty” image from yesterday, he looks a little sterner than in the original. That may be the way machines see us. And may be something to look out for in the coming years when we are as likely to be “chipped” as our pets are. It is useful to find out where they are, you know?

With all the Election hoo-rah over for a few days, we think he might have preferred this one from the Panama Canal in 1912:

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It is more fun than waiting for the machine to collate the twenty chapters, edit and append the original pictures that had to be scanned and exported as .jpeg files and the machine telling us to wait for “just a moment” and to not touch the controls until something happens. That started last Wednesday. We are hoping something will happen soon, or we may have to actually go to work. As a Labor Saving device!

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