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Why Siri needs more Star trek

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is a powerful tool, but it threatens our privacy.

Fortunately, there is a way forward. To see the way, step back with me for a moment to the era of my childhood. Back then, when I was voraciously reading science fiction, I thought the things imagined were too fantastic to ever be real. Today, I think the authors were fantastic – because so many of their ideas have come true.

The now ubiquitous office scanner and photocopier was carefully described by Isaac Asimov in his 1952 book – five years before the first

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