[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