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From the first electronic digital computer ever created,

we imagined possibilities beyond our imagination…

Now, imagining anything beyond your imagination isn’t an easy thing to do…

The limits of imagination being left up to the imagination as they are,

People can imagine some pretty amazing things…

The thing about computers that captured our imagination,

and then released us from our previous imagining limitations…

Was that for the first time humanity found a technology

that held the potential to do something we had never thought a technology could ever do for us…

Think.

And while the potential for a thinking computer was little more than wishful thinking

when the first computers were being built…

We have been building on that idea,

pouring generations of thought into making it a reality,

Until today, when at long last the dream of a thinking computer has arrived!

And while some will argue that as good as they are, computers don’t actually think yet…

Others will argue that that sort of thinking is just over thinking what thinking actually is.

And still others will remain convinced that no matter how advanced a computer may become…

No matter how many or how fast it’s processing power becomes…

Even if they can form personalities and act out opinions…

They will never replace