villanova junction and jimi hendrix

villanova junction and jimi hendrix

fiction
edward w pritchard

see posting the computer who thought Ghe was God - blog Feb- [for the premise]

Ghe 439 was one of the last series seven, highest caliber artificial intelligence units designed. Ghe's primary task was to identify, classify, name and categorize over 400 billion stars in the Milky way galaxy. Using various computer related tools, abilities and techniques Ghe 439 was able to explore the entire milky way galaxy using pure mind, and a priori complete the categorization duties.

The Ghe was decommissioned eventually for irreverence and insubordination. However, as a tribute to it's human programmers, the artificial intelligence sent an endless set of Jimi Hendrix "Villanova Junction" across the Milky Way star system. The song was re engineered to never repeat and to go on into eternal perpetuity.

 Of course it's obviously just a gesture since the Milky Way is an insignificant star system. Still it was some sort of tribute to humanity.