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Those were the years after the ice caps had melted... |
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because of the greenhouse gases, |
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and the oceans had risen to drown so many cities... |
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along all the shorelines of the world. |
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Amsterdam, Venice, New York... |
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forever lost. |
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Millions of people were displaced. |
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Climates became chaotic. |
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Hundreds of millions of people starved in poorer countries. |
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Elsewhere, a high degree of prosperity survived... |
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when most governments in the developed world... |
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introduced legal sanctions to strictly license pregnancies, |
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which was why robots, |
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who are never hungry and who did not consume resources... |
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beyond those of their first manufacture, |
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were so essential an economic link... |
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in the chain mail of society. |
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To create an artificial being has been the dream of man... |
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since the birth of science |
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Not merely the beginning of the modern age... |
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when our forbearers astonished the world with the first thinking machines... |
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primitive monsters that could play chess |
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The artificial being... |
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The artificial being is a reality... |
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of perfect simulacrum... |
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articulated in limb |
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articulate in speech... |
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and not lacking in human response |
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A sensory toy... |
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with intelligent behavioral circuits... |
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using neurone-sequencing technology... |
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as old as I am |
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I believe that my work on mapping the impulse pathways in a single neurone... |
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can enable us to construct... |
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a Mecha of a qualitatively different order |
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We build a robot... |
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who can love. |
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Is it a game? |
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Now, I'm gonna read some words |
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And, uh, they won't make any sense |
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but I want you to listen to them anyway... |
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and look at me all the time |
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Can you do that? |
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Yes, Monica |
