"The State Machine"

Title"The State Machine"
Year for Search2020
AuthorsWijeratne, Yudhanjaya(b. 1992)
Secondary Authors[Breed], [Divya Srinivasan]
Tertiary AuthorsDivya, S. B. [pseud.]
Secondary TitleSlate
Date PublishedSeptember 26, 2020
KeywordsMale author, Sri Lankan author
Annotation

The story is set in a gradually collapsing future in which Sri Lanka is the testing ground for governance based on algorithms and traces its development from a computer game to a self-evolving system. 

URL“The State Machine,” a short story by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne. (slate.com)
Info Notes

For a response, see [Divya Srinivasan Breed], “Under the Gaze of Big Mother.” with the same illus. By S. B. Divya [pseud.]. Slate (September 26, 2020). An expert on machine learning responds to Yudhanjaya Wijeratne’s “The State Machine.” (slate.com)

Illustration

Illus. Shasha Léonard

Author Note

Wijeratne (b. 1992) is a Sri Lanka author. Breed/Divya is an Indian American female author living in the U.S. from age five.

Full Text

2020 Wijeratne, Yudhanjaya (b. 1992). “The State Machine.” Illus. Shasha Léonard. Slate (September 26, 2020) “The State Machine,” a short story by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne. (slate.com). For a response, see [Divya Srinivasan Breed], “Under the Gaze of Big Mother.” with the same illus. By S. B. Divya [pseud.]. Slate (September 26, 2020). An expert on machine learning responds to Yudhanjaya Wijeratne’s “The State Machine.” (slate.com)

The story is set in a gradually collapsing future in which Sri Lanka is the testing ground for governance based on algorithms and traces its development from a computer game to a self-evolving system. Wijeratne is a Sri Lanka author. Breed/Divya is an Indian American female author living in the U.S. from age five.