a short story about a machine that sees the future

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Future Thought Machine

a short story about a machine that sees the future



The ministry developed a machine that could predict our thoughts. They knew what we were going to think before we did.

One day it went into catastrophic meltdown, and nobody could explain why.

So we began to wonder what thought had been powerful enough to overheat the machine, which had been furiously trying to understand our thoughts, which were furiously trying to understand the machine, which was furiously trying to understand our thoughts, which...

After a minute, we gave up and headed out to watch all the pretty explosions.

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Short story written by Peter Chiykowski

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Story prompt taken from a photo by Una Xu

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