Kurt Vonnegut's EPICAC

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“EPICAC” is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut. Its “funny” (not) how Kurt Vonnegut uses EPICAC as both a title for his short story and as a name for a super computer in the exact story. In “EPICAC,” EPICAC is a super computer, worth about eight million dollars, which was designed by the government for military purposes. Throughout this short story, EPICAC goes against what it means to be a machine and human. Vonnegut uses personification to give EPICAC some human-like abilities. One of these abilities is human emotion, mainly being able to love. Vonnegut introduces EPICAC as being the machine that his main character relies upon. The main character in the story uses EPICAC to solve complicated math problems, which “fifty Einsteins wouldn’t

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