This collaboration services seems to be the British equivalent of the US secure collaboration environment described by Grant Schneider, Deputy Director of Information Management and CIO at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

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It would be capable of not just negotiating its environment but also intelligently manipulating objects--a level of functioning almost equivalent to a human servant.

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The plant, which has been 12 years in the planning, is expected to generate 165, 500kwh of electricity per year - the amount to power the equivalent of more than 50 homes - with most of it being sold to the Environment Agency.

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In some cases, neither make for a friendly environment for biological life, since to overcome every possible issue likely means turning the office into the equivalent of a microwave oven.

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