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To: Kirk © who wrote (75940)	6/12/2017 11:10:57 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95456

For sure. VR. AR, robotics--they are each subsets of AI, I think. But important enough to distinguish them. There are incredible things coming over the next century. Whether that will be good for humans or not--that is the question. Francis Bacon in the late 16th, early 17th century, had the idea that, with scientific thinking and advances, humans could recreate a Garden of Eden for themselves. That became a guiding political idea during the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment for many people. Alongside of course warnings from Romantics and traditional religions that the goal itself was hubristic and could never be accomplished nor should it even be tried. That battle continues in the 21st century. Semiconductors are the weapons of one side of it. As with all weapons, they can used and they can be abused. Let's hope that humans can avoid too much abusing.