The vast internet kingdom policed by the sheriff of Nautingham lawyers and Lord Bill gates extending his Feifs out to the money squandering corporations, enslaving the end-user poverty stricken vassals. But where is Robin Hood to be the great leveler?

Computational Perception and Developmental Robotics are a strong undertone in computer engineering courses at ISU. I don't know about other schools, but a HAL like computer is much less than a "dream goal". I can say without a doubt that it something similar will be engineered in much less than 2001 years. Technological growth is speeding up nearly exponentially(steam engine, combustion engine, flight, electricity, moonwalk) I'm sure everyone has heard the spiel. http://www.ece.iastate.edu/~alexs/dissertation/dissertation.pdf Asst Professor at ISU, Alex Stoytchev's dissertation focuses specifically on building a system of robotic learning, commonly called "Developmental Robotics". While his robot only had the ability to categorize objects based on resonance sound and mass, it still shows that fundamental building blocks for a one day "HAL" are already in existence.

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Wait I'm confused. Don't you want to make money off of this? If you're looking to to just contribute to society why not just post tutorials or build a wiki.

I was able to install a Chinese version of Warcraft III, which I purchased from a non-blzzard online vendor for half the price, on my computer by just changing some language settings in my registry. This time ill just change my registry language settings from American to British when I upgrade.

Even though every single one of those statements are true, there are still many variations of personality and character. It's just a different setting for the same plot. Much less than a mindset, more like meaningless ramble of facts.