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Remember back in the day?
Our clock radio would blare into our dreams with a loud ring. We would flip the pages of a catalog, marking what we wanted to order or mail a check in a real envelope with a stamp. We answered a rotary phone with a gentle hello because we never knew who was calling. We snapped photos of our vacation and after our return, dropped off the 35mm film at a Fotomat, hopefully retrieving documentation of the amazing trip the next day or whenever you could get back to the drive-up window.
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The picture phone was a thing of the future. Orbit City, home to the beloved Jetsons, was as far from our reality as the moon. Science fiction was just that — fiction. The novel 1984, published in 1949, was so far out there that it was unimaginable.
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Artificial Intelligence, better known as AI
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