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Lest we forget, A.I. is created by flawed humans. A broken mind creates a broken fake mind. It is intended to become a fake god of course, but one which is unreliable. Just as your car is unreliable. Temporary. It will rust, its plastic will become brittle and turn to dust. Electricity is volatile. It will not end well. L. Frank Baum wrote a book BEFORE Wizard of Oz in the year 1900. It was called THE MASTER KEY. It was the dawn of this new thing called 'electricity.' It will blow your mind if you read it, while it reminds you of the books you noted you read when you were a kid, but with one strange prophetic difference for the 20th and 21st centuries. The 'demon of electricity' comes and offers a boy gifts from the future. The boy misuses every single one of them to comical ends. He decides he is not knowledgeable enough to handle this futuristic power. He predicts some astonishing things in 1900. Few people know this book exists.

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