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color=#222222>“Siri?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Google
‘artificial intelligence’ and the seemingly innocuous but increasingly integral
role technology plays in our daily lives.” </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#222222>According
Kevin Kelly, the </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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executive editor of Wired magazine, technology wants what life itself wants:
Increasing opportunity, increasing emergence, increasing sentience, and
increasing ubiquity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#333333>Jordan
Harrison’s 2014 Pulitzer prize-nominated play “Marjorie Prime,”
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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on stage at Dobama Theatre, is such a story. It offers us a
not-too-distant future where technology’s </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ">opportunity,
emergence, sentience, and ubiquity have been fully realized.<SPAN
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play centers on the notion that our memory of the past is the cornerstone of our
consciousness, singularity and </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">identity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What are we, it asks, when our memory begins to fail due to old age and
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#333333>deteriorating
health</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">, and the stories of
our lives fade with it?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is
left of us when our life’s narrative leaves us?</SPAN></FONT></P>
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