daiko

She is holding a 'denden daiko' to pacify the baby.

Archive 2008-02-01 The Nag 2008

Unsuspected and untouched, the O-daiko-yan continued to turn out one contaminated AI unit after another, for insertion and integration into every manner of end product.

Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

In the company of its spiritual children-a host of grateful cortical nexi, vehicles, vid monitors, and assorted household appliances'the O-daiko found itself beginning to bond with a vast alien yet amenable intelligence.

Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

With such evidence ever present to support its theory, the O-daiko persisted in its work.

Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

When it had come through on his belt communicator, he'd been sitting in the tunnel atop the O-daiko optical circuitry nexus, squatting comfortably above several hundred million credits 'worth of critical instrumentation.

Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

The O-daiko, however, supervised the production of, among other items, sophisticated AI units designed to run more mundane devices, including smaller and less complicated O-daikos destined to run other, less complex factories churning out everyday Al-operated or - influenced consumer goods.

Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

What the O-daiko wanted to know, what it had to know, and what it demanded of its subtly adjusted offspring to try and find out was not complex at all.

Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

Then, and only then, would the O-daiko be satisfied and rest easy.

Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

The fact that not a single hopeful response had been forthcoming from any of the thousands of altered AI units it had set to questing did not discourage the O-daiko.

Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

This generated not destruction but rather relational puzzlement and confusion within the O-daiko's state-of-the-art AI cognition circuitry.

Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992