[00:14.500]Those were the years after the ice caps had melted...
[00:17.136]because of the greenhouse gases,
[00:20.173]and the oceans had risen to drown so many cities...
[00:22.775]along all the shorelines of the world.
[00:25.812]Amsterdam, Venice, New York...
[00:30.116]forever lost.
[00:32.118]Millions of people were displaced.
[00:35.054]Climates became chaotic.
[00:38.024]Hundreds of millions of people starved in poorer countries.
[00:41.694]Elsewhere, a high degree of prosperity survived...
[00:43.930]when most governments in the developed world...
[00:45.965]introduced legal sanctions to strictly license pregnancies,
[00:50.403]which was why robots,
[00:52.972]who are never hungry and who did not consume resources...
[00:55.374]beyond those of their first manufacture,
[00:57.910]were so essential an economic link...
[01:01.681]in the chain mail of society.
[01:57.500]To create an artificial being has been the dream of man...
[02:01.638]since the birth of science
[02:05.241]Not merely the beginning of the modern age...
[02:07.410]when our forbearers astonished the world with the first thinking machines...
[02:11.114]primitive monsters that could play chess
[02:12.500]The artificial being...
[02:32.000]The artificial being is a reality...
[02:34.269]of perfect simulacrum...
[02:37.439]articulated in limb
[02:39.975]articulate in speech...
[02:42.945]and not lacking in human response
[03:07.000]A sensory toy...
[03:09.703]with intelligent behavioral circuits...
[03:13.106]using neurone-sequencing technology...
[03:16.143]as old as I am
[03:24.981]I believe that my work on mapping the impulse pathways in a single neurone...
[03:30.453]can enable us to construct...
[03:32.489]a Mecha of a qualitatively different order
[03:36.197]We build a robot...
[03:38.101]who can love.
[04:17.500]Is it a game?
[04:19.735]Now, I'm gonna read some words
[04:22.038]And, uh, they won't make any sense
[04:25.141]but I want you to listen to them anyway...
[04:27.677]and look at me all the time
[04:31.147]Can you do that?
[04:33.147]Yes, Monica