Aleph unfolded itself slowly If fed him machine and assembly language, led him through vast trees ot C-SMART, its "intelligent assistant" decision-making programs, opened up the whole electromagnetic spectrum as it came in trom Aleph’s various inputs. George understood it all—the voices, the codes. When he unplugged, the knowledge faded, but there was something else behind it, a skewing of perception, a sense that his world had changed.