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real, or is this another one of
your pretend projects?”
    “ This is as real as it gets, a
one hundred percent grade A android.”
    “ Are you selling an android or a
toaster?” asked Spencer who did not show any signs of being
impressed.
    “ I hope you didn’t just compare a 1.7 billion
dollar project to a toaster.”
    “ 1.7 billion for that? Are you
for real? Now wonder my PDA service fees cost so much.”
    “ What, you’re not impressed?”
    “ Impressed! If you’re telling me
what I think you’re telling me I’m more concerned then
impressed.”
    “ Spencer what are you talking
about?”
    “ Since I left Jade at school and
saw you, I’ve had multiple conversations and interactions, but none
of them were with a real live human. I drove here in a machine that
drove itself, purchased a coffee from a computer, and took part of
a security checkpoint run by a Stalin like program. My car was then
parked and stored by a computerized parking facility, while I
entered a tram filled with human like drones who were glued to
either their PICs, tablets, and/or PDA’s. After getting off the
tram, the one woman I wanted to see somehow vanished into thin blue
air. I then walked through an obstacle course of technology new and
old, and on top of all that I was escorted here by a flying tin
ball.”
    “ They aren’t made of tin, they’re
made of aluminum, it’s lighter, more abundant, and much more
effective,” laughed Reece
    “ Whatever!” snapped Spencer.
    “ So, I still don’t see the problem,” said
Reece.
    “ Nothing is run by humans anymore
and now you’re telling me we just created our
replacements.”
    “ Calm down, replacement? Who said anything
about replacement? Did you get a few extra shots of espresso in
your coffee this morning? You did didn’t you? You know how you get
when you become over caffeinated.”
    “ Hey, what I have in my coffee is my
business.”
    “ How did you put it earlier? Oh yeah,
whatever,” smiled Reece.
    “ That’s not funny.”
    “ Relax. Think of how much easier
our lives are and how we have more time to do things we enjoy
because of all the wonderful technology we have. Take our parking
facility as an example. Remember when we had to drive our cars into
a parking garage, deal with some underpaid parking attendant, who
then parked our vehicle haphazardly. Now they take the cars to a
different floor, stack them by electronic lifts, which in return
increases the ability to store more vehicles within less space,
creating less parking garages. This means we have more places for
nature and we all know how you love nature.”
    “ Don’t start calling me your
little tree hugger, you know I hate that. Just because I like the
woods doesn’t mean I am one,” replied Spencer
defensively.
    “ Hey I’m not saying that’s bad.
Personally the bug, tree, dirt thing doesn’t work for me, but I
know it’s necessary. I don’t expect everyone to like what I like,”
replied Reece.
    “ I don’t think the average person can like
what you like because they wouldn’t be able to comprehend
it.”
    “ Don’t underestimate the average person. They
may surprise you. Anyway, Adam isn’t here to replace humans, he is
just here to help us improve, slightly similar to that PDA you love
so much, but would never admit to.”
    “ No, you’re right, I’m not saying
technology is bad, heck today it prevented me from running some
fool over, I’m just worried that it’s depleting human contact and
we’re becoming too dependent on it. Aren’t you worried that someday
all this technology will control us?”
    “ Absolutely not, we will always
be in control and in no way is technology dividing us from each
other, if anything it is bringing us together. Do you know how many
friends I have on my social networks? Heck, I probably text more
than four hundred times a week.”
    “ Don’t get me going on those social networks,”
replied Spencer.
    “ Come on you know you enjoy them.
How is