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Maybe the first case of fictional computer genius was in the famous 1960s weird but wonderful TV seies, *The Prisoner*, Jellby.
It sounds so bloody daft now after just four short decades or so, but the ultra-smart hero, kidnapped MI5 spy Number Six, beat the world's most powerful computer -- a thing that threatened civilisation as we know it -- by blowing its electronic mind simply by typing in the one question no computer ever could answer ... the single word *WHY?*
Eee, we've passed a lot of water since those days of technological innocence, eh? Hoots. Neil
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