It is increasingly obvious that digital computers are very bright, but deaf, dumb and blind.

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It was all working so well until that stupid mouse spilled the beans to the deaf, dumb and blind kid, who started buying gold.

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The deaf, dumb and blind kid starts buying gold.

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"Instead of being deaf, dumb, and blind sitting on our desks or in our pockets, our computers might be able to observe what we do all day, understand what is important to us, and act as a virtual assistant who helps us on a second-by-second basis, " said Thad Starner, Associate Professor of the Contextual Computing Group at Georgia Tech University.

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