(Cousin to Enigma, the calculating machine takes up the length of the room and a lot of the width. Commander Millington enters.)
JUDSON:
The North Atlantic U-boats have changed ciphers again.
That's twice this month.
MILLINGTON:
Can we crack them?
JUDSON:
Hmm. It may take a few days longer.
Oh, they're using six rotors now instead of five.
MILLINGTON:
Get inside the Nazi mind, Judson.
Learn to think the way they think.
It's the only way to understand their ciphers.
JUDSON:
The machine can do it, if you'd be so kind as to authorise it, sir. Thank you.
Oh yes, the machine can do it.
This is the first.
In the future there'll be many more computing machines, thinking machines.
MILLINGTON:
Yes.
But whose thoughts will they think?
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