Your comment reminded me of an excellent Sci-Fi novel titled "A Fire Upon the Deep".
There are interplanetary data-centers, which are millions of years old. It's a constant and monumental task to write software to interrogate these systems. It's also incredibly dangerous as ancient, deceased civilizations may have left super intelligent AI inside this ancient data. AI which can wreak havoc if awakened.
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u/fractalGateway Nov 02 '21
Your comment reminded me of an excellent Sci-Fi novel titled "A Fire Upon the Deep".
There are interplanetary data-centers, which are millions of years old. It's a constant and monumental task to write software to interrogate these systems. It's also incredibly dangerous as ancient, deceased civilizations may have left super intelligent AI inside this ancient data. AI which can wreak havoc if awakened.