\nTHE MACHINE COULD TELL, FROM JUST A SAMPLE
\nOF YOUR BLOOD, HOW YOU WERE GOING TO DIE <\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t give you the date and it didn\u2019t give you specifics. It just spat out a
\nsliver of paper upon which were printed, in careful block letters, the words
\nDROWNED or CANCER or OLD AGE or CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF
\nPOPCORN. And it was frustratingly vague in its predictions: dark, and
\nseemingly delighting in the ambiguities of language. OLD AGE, it had
\nalready turned out, could mean either dying of natural causes, or shot by
\na bedridden man in a botched home invasion. The machine captured that
\nold-world sense of irony in death \u2014 you can know how it\u2019s going to
\nhappen, but you\u2019ll still be surprised when it does.<\/p>\n
We tested it before announcing it to the world, but testing took time \u2014 too
\nmuch, since we had to wait for people to die. After four years had gone by
\nand three people died as the machine predicted, we shipped it out the
\ndoor.<\/p>\n
There were now machines in every doctor\u2019s office and in booths at
\nthe mall. You could pay someone or you could probably get it done for
\nfree, but the result was the same no matter what machine you went to. They
\nwere, at least, consistent.<\/p>\n
\u2014 from the introduction\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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