The Institute of Cybernetics was housed in a gray windowless block within the city of Warrenton. To Al it always looked like one of the cubes that housed a cybernetic brain, a cube expanded to a million times normal size with control cables extending to all the world.
Now, as he approached the building again, he felt how terrifyingly accurate the analogy was. Under governmental authority the Institute held complete domination of cybernetic work in all the world.
The Institute alone had authority to make contracts with individuals who wished to offer their brains for cybernetic use after their death. Only the Institute could release these contracts and the only recipients could be the government authorized plants which manufactured the world’s goods or carried on other licensed activity.
