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“Artificial Intelligence.”<br />

“That’s ‘A. I.’, not ‘I. A.’”<br />

“Yes, but Ike also wrote as ‘Paul French’. In French, artificial<br />

intelligence is ‘intelligence artificiel’.<br />

“And Mosaic? Asimov died fifty years before it was even thought<br />

of.”<br />

“It never was about <strong>the</strong> Mosaic I-Net. Isaac Asimov is an<br />

anagram of ‘As via Mosaic’.”<br />

The two bro<strong>the</strong>rs arrived at <strong>the</strong> last checkpoint. Their ID checked<br />

<strong>and</strong> scanned, <strong>the</strong> two men stepped onto <strong>the</strong> ramp to <strong>the</strong> airlock where<br />

<strong>the</strong> President of Earth waited for <strong>the</strong> visitors.<br />

“You see, bro<strong>the</strong>r, our visitors aren’t aliens at all. They’re—“<br />

They arrived just in time to see <strong>the</strong> President shake a cold robotic<br />

h<strong>and</strong>.<br />

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