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“In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human. It is fitting that such an important landmark has been reached at the Royal Society in London, the home of British Science and the scene of many great advances in human understanding over the centuries. This milestone will go down in history as one of the most exciting.”

“A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.”

People Humans Persons Made Real Half Modern Century Birth Seeking Corporations Artificial Remakes Psychopath Modern Business

Book:The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

“Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.”

“The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.”

Century Invention Revolutionary Artificial Nineteenth Century Sterilization

Book:Shaw, Plays by George Bernard

Source: Shaw, Plays by George Bernard

“Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.”

Should Humans Greater Century Expression Broken Activity Slavery Barriers Artificial Womens Rights Submission Crave Assertion Truest Emancipation

Book:Emma Goldman

Source: Emma Goldman

“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”

“In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.”

Firsts Next Century Bird Grass Artificial Plastic Worms

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the natural colours blush. Saccharin, which is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, is a purely artificial substance. New explosives, drugs, alloys, photographic substances, essences, scents, solvents, and detergents are being poured out in a continuous stream.”

Has Beens Lasts Science Stuff Natural Century Materials Drug Essence Prepared Substance Streams Colour Sugar Artificial Scent Coal Compounds Explosives

Book:Matter and energy

Source: Matter and energy