 Why do the police believe the analogue computer can defeat Lane?
Raging , Trooper Lane hovered three thousand feet above Tammany Square. The humming paragrav-paks embedded beneath his shoulder blades held him motionless above Newyork's three administrative towers. Two black paragrav-boats whirred along the translucent underside of Newyork's anti-missile force-shield, the Shell. The rounded black hulls of the two police paragrav-boats were nosing toward the force-screen. A loudspeaker shouted into the room: "Come out of there, Lane, or we'll blast you out." The cannon trundled into the Square on its olive-drab, box-shaped caterpillar mounting and took up a position equidistant from the bases of the three towers. Lane's defense is a globe of energy similar to the one which protects Newyork from aerial attack."
 The analogue computer is much larger and more powerful than the cybrain.
 The police are fooling themselves. The analogue computer cannot hope to compete with the cybrain.  The analogue computer is much larger and more powerful than the cybrain.  The cybrains are an extension of the analogue computer.  The cybrains do not have the advanced processor the analogue computer does.