Colossus: The Forbin Project
- M
- Year:
- 1970
- 100 min
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Would you look this way please?
Okay!
One moment.
Mr. President, all systems activated.
I hope I didn't keep you waiting too long.
- oh no, not at all.
Congratulations Dr. Forbin.
It's a marvelous achievement.
Thank you sir.
Hear, Hear!
The limousine is ready for us.
Of course it's gonna put me out of a job
and put the Pentagon in mothballs.
Congratulations Dr. Forbin.
I'm quite sure that won't happen
Listen to him.
He's more relieved than anybody.
Our secretary of defense, the secretary of
state and myself
had a discussion on our way out here
and as to the treatment needed
And hem..
We all agreed
it should be simple and direct.
Yes.
Downgrade the biggest top-secret
in all history to a plain non-sequitur.
Now, all we have to do
Thank you sir.
My friends..
Fellow citizens of the world.
For years we have been delicately
and desperately poised
upon the brink of a disaster
too complete
and horrible to contemplate.
There is an old saying:
Everyone makes mistakes
but that is just
what man can no longer afford.
For years, we here in the united states
have been working on that problem
until now it's been our most
closely guarded secret
involving great effort
and wast expenditure.
But it has been met with success.
As President of
I can now tell you,
the people of the entire world
that as of 3 Am. eastern standard time
the defense of this nation
and with it, the defense of the free world
has been the responsibility of a machine.
A system we call Colossus.
Far more advanced
than anything previously built
Capable of studying intelligence
and data fed to it.
And on the basis of those facts only
deciding if an attack
is about to be launched upon us.
If it did decide
that an attack was imminent
colossus would then act immediately
for it controls its own weapons
and can select and deliver
whatever it considers appropriate.
Colossus decisions are superior
to any we humans can make.
For it can absorb
and process more knowledge
than is remotely possible
for the greatest genius that ever lived.
And even more important than that
it has no emotions.
Knows no fear, no hate, no envy.
It cannot act in a sudden fit of temper.
Cannot act at all
so long as there is no threat.
I would now like you to meet
Dr. Charles Forbin
on computer systems.
And if you will..
the father of Colossus.
Thank you Mr. President.
Ladies and gentlemen, I will..
try to make this as simple as possible.
The main memory and central processing units
are located here in the rocky mountains..
Inside this particular mountain..
In Colorado.
And overlooking the Pacific Ocean
in California..
the Colossus programing office
oversees the entire operation.
The computer center
contains over one hundred thousand remote
censors and communication devices
which monitor all
electronic transmissions
such as microwaves, laser
radio and television communications
data communications from satellites
in orbit all over the world.
The entire system..
is surrounded by fields
of intensified gamma radiation
and other countermeasure devices.
Colossus works
We make no secret..
nor do we intend to conceal
how it functions.
You may rightfully say
that this leaves us wide open to an attack
frontally and subversively
and if that attack were successful
it would in effect leave us defenseless.
However..
Colossus
does have its own defense.
It is its own defense.
In case of an attack..
on any of its information supply
or power lines..
Colossus will switch on
the emergency circuits
which will then take
the appropriate action.
It is self-sufficient
self-protected
self-generated.
It is impenetrable.
In short..
There's no way in.
Over here
we have one of the many terminals
directly hooked
to the computer center.
Through this
Colossus can communicate with us,
excuse me gentlemen,
and through this machine
we, in turn, can communicate with Colossus.
Now, there's one last point.
One inevitable question..
which we have been asked
very frequently before.
And that is..
is Colossus capable of creative thought?
Can it initiate new thought?
I can tell you
that the answer to that is no.
However
Colossus is a paragon of knowledge
and his knowledge
can be expanded indefinitely.
I hope, along with all the scientists who..
helped make this particular project,
that the immense power of this computer
will not only be used
for the defense of this country
but hopefully also as an aid to the solution
of the many problems we face on this earth
and the many more problems
that we will face
the more deeply we penetrate
into the universe.
Thank you.
Mr. President.
Thank you Dr. Forbin.
And so..
we all directly and
indirectly live in the shade
but not the shadow of Colossus.
My sincere hope
is that now
we shall join hands and hearts
across this great globe
and pledge our time and our energies
to the elimination of war
elimination of famine,
of suffering
and ultimately to the manifestation
of the human millennium.
This can be done,
but first there must be peace.
Thank you.
CPO Rec-Room.
Blake Miller here.
What?!
Just a minute.
I can't hear you.
Hey! Hold it down!
Kill the noise. Hold it.
It's The White House.
Hello Charles.
Hello Blake.
How is everyone?
Everything's fine down here Charles.
Very good.
Dr. Forbin, we had a power failure
in one of the infra-red satellites.
I cant, I cant quite hear you Dr. Markham.
We had a power failure
in one of the infra-red satellites
about an hour and a half ago
but Colossus switched immediately to the
backup system and didn't loose any data.
Everything's fine now.
Everything's been going so well
we don't know what to do with ourselves
Out of desperation Angela and I
have decided to get married
Finally, finally.
Very good.
Charlie, is that your crew on the phone?
Certainly is Mr. President.
Can I talk to them?
Sure, go ahead sir.
Blake, Hello!
Hello Mr. President.
Hello everyone.
How are you?
Are you having a good time?
Yeah!
Very good.
Ahh.. Folks
I just wanna congratulate all of you
and I wish all of you good luck
on your next projects
Thank you Mr. President.
Have a good rest.
You deserve it.
Thank you.
We will!
you've got going there.
Bye bye.
Have fun.
Here's Dr. Forbin again.
How's the party down there Charles?
I said, Charles,
how's the party at that end?
I wish I could be
there with you
because this party is becoming
a crashing bore.
Please not that song.
Please not.
Dr. Forbin,
send us a souvenir, will you?
Say that again.
What?!
Steal us an ashtray
from The White House, OK?
Very good.
Goodbye.
Haha..
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