> It's a future-telling story on how computerized bureaucracies can create great troubles. But in real life, often the problems are not even caused by computers

> It's a future-telling story on how computerized bureaucracies can create great troubles. But in real life, often the problems are not even caused by computers, but by government officials, humans, that fail the Turing Test. I think the story makes this point, effectively, when it gets to the court system and everyone goes on vacation at exactly the wrong moment. You could make the case this is a story about Fate in the Greek sense, with the computer merely being Fate's instrument and everyone being helpless in the face of one man's fated demise.