Library, Midnight, Human Brain

The librarian was not even human. She… no, it, was merely a human brain in a vat of chemicals with wires leading into the ceiling at least 100 feet above. It was the newest invention and creation of Amalgamated Brainpower: a cybernetic brain for database searches, particular useful to this last remaining library in the country. In any instant, it could find any book a user was asking about, even with the vaguest sense of what the user was searching for. No one honestly believed the stated intentions, though. No one believed that this government subsidized library really even needed such advanced technology. There was little interest in the National Library, and there stood in the middle of the main lobby a consciousness directly connected to a mere collection of books that none desired to have. Suspicions of its purpose have ranged from simply wasting money to a deliberate effort for subverting the validity of non-cyborgs. Janie did not believe either theory. She knew that the nature of Amalgamated Brainpower, a subsidiary of Cybernetic Technologies, was too closely involved with the previous decades cyber-internet war, too closely involved with the digital annihilation of online communities. All Janie had to do was break in at midnight, right when the brain performs its daily scheduled auto-maintenance. Her hammer was ready in hand, ready to use her technological knowledge to discover the true nature of this project.