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Melania Trump pitches robots as potential educators for American schoolchildren (www.cbsnews.com)

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[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'd say she was inspired by Neal Stephenson's book Diamond Age, but I've seen no compelling evidence that Melanua can read.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Thanks for another suggestion. I read snow crash and cryptonomicon and zodiac.

So far zodiac was my fav

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[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

Diamond Age was, I believe, written directly after Snowcrash, so it is one of his earlier books. I really enjoyed the concepts and world building in it.

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