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From Web Application Overview CPS616 Basic Information Track for Computational Science -- Winter-Spring Semester 96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE
The trip to the opera was the high point for the thousands of international visitors to the conference.
They were streaming out of the new center which had been built in a decaying downtown area. Here old warehouses were still mixed with the proud new buildings of the economic redevelopment zone.
Luke CyberCzar was in charge of the crisis center when the first 911 video dial tones showed the horrifying sight. A gigantic set of explosions rocked a set of old chemical warehouses and fires and fumes of unknown composition ringed the new opera complex. The frightened audience panicked and scattered this way and that into the surrounding alleys. Of course the digital video crews covering the opera immediately switched their cameras to this catastrophe. Just a few seconds after those 911 calls, all the MPEG decoders on the GII were presenting the chaos, damage and injuries live to a world whose cybereyes were trained on Luke.
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