Part 53 (2/2)
Many of these things involve your studies and they will simply come out of my own notes.
A lot of times they will come simply because you've asked a question and the computer has found a keyword.
You carry my keycard, my number, and my name. My records exist only in Archives and yours are the current files. Don't worry about my being dead. It doesn't bother me at all at this point. You can call me Ari senior. There isn't any word in the language that says what we are to each other. I'm not your mother and I'm not your sister. I'm just your Older. I a.s.sume that word is still current.
Understand, Ari, there is a difference between myself, who say these words into a Scriber, -and Base One. Base One can use a language logic function to talk with you much more like a living person than I can, because it's real-time and I'm not, and haven't been since 2404.
That's the computer accessing my records, understand, to find out that date.
Base One can answer questions on its own and bring up my answers to certain questions, and you can talk back and forth with it.
But never get confused about which one is able to talk back and forth with you directly.
Have you got a question now? Ask it the right way and Base One will start talking to you. If you make a mistake the program will revert to the instruction you missed. Or you can ask for repeat. Good night, Ari. Good night, Florian and Catlin.
AE2: Ari, wait.
B/1: I'm listening, Ari.
AE2: Are you Base One now?
B/1: Yes.
AE2: Who sent my maman Jane Stra.s.sen to Fargone?
B/1: Access inadequate. There is a reference from Ari. Stand by.
Ari, this is Ari senior.
This is the first time you've asked a question with a Security block on it. I don't know what the question is. It means something is preventing you from reaching that information in the House computers and your clearance isn't high enough. The most probable reason is: Minority status. End segment.
AE2: Ari, wait.
B/1: I'm listening, Ari.
AE2: Where is Valery Schwartz?
B/1: Access inadequate.
AE2: Where's Amy Carnath?
B/1: Amy Carnath checked into the Minder in U8899. U8899 is: apartment registered to Julia Carnath. There is no record of check-out in that Minder.
AE2: Then she's home.
B/1: Please be specific.
AE2: Then Amy Carnath is home, isn't she?
B/1: Amy Carnath is home, yes.
2315: 1/27: 2035.
AE2: Base One: look up Ariane Emory in Library.
B/1: Access limited. Ari has a message. Stand by.
Ari, this is Ari senior.
So you've gotten curious about me. I don't blame you. I would be too. But you're 9 and the program will only let you access my records up to when I was 4. That gap will narrow as you grow older, until you're able to read into my records equal to and beyond your current age. There's a reason for this. You'll understand more of that reason as you grow. One reason you can understand now is that these records are very personal, and people older than 9 do things that would confuse h.e.l.l out of you, sweet.
Also at 9 you're not old enough to understand the difference between my accomplishments and my mistakes, because the records don't explain anything. They're just things the House computer recorded at the time.
Now that you've asked, Base One will automatically upgrade the information once a week. I'd give it to you daily, because there's going to be a lot of it, but I don't want you to get so involved with what I did from day to day that you live too much with me and not enough in the real world.
You can access anything about anybody you want in Archives through 2287, when I was 4. If the person you want wasn't born by then, you won't get anything.
This gap will constantly narrow as you grow, and as your questions and your own records indicate to Base One that you have met certain criteria. So the harder you study in school and the more things you qualify in, the faster you get answers. That's the way life works.
Remember what you do is your own choice. What I did was mine.
Good luck, sweet.
Now Library will retrieve all my records up to the time I was 4 and store it for your access in a file named BIO.
2315: 4/14: 1547.
B/1: Stand by for your Library request.
AE2: Capture.
B/1: Affirmative: doc.u.ment captured; copyrighted: I must dump all data in two days unless you authorize the 20-credit purchase price.
AE2: Scan for reference to horse or equine or equestrian.
B/1: Located.
AE2: How many references?
B/1: Eighty-two.
AE2: Compare data to data in study file: HORSE. Highlight and Tempstore additional information or contradictions in incoming data. Call me when you're done.
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