And so I say to this Congress and this country, something that runs deep in your character and is woven in your history, we conquer our fear of the future through our faith in the future.

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Harvesting asteroids, creating a radically transparent virtual world state and replacing workers with intelligent robots are all very well, but unless our big tech companies recognize their social responsibilities, I fear that our real future could be as disturbing as the science fictional one presented in Ridley Scott's blockbuster.

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Instead of the greed of the tech bubble or the housing bubble we are looking into the future with such fear that we just want to get our money back.

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But we fear the ways in which our deep negativities and the pain of our past might in fact influence our political future.

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This is the growing fear anyway, as more and more articles on are discussing what is to be done about our dystopian robot future.

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We do not allow ourselves to be defined by fear, but by the hopes we have for our families, for our nation, and for a brighter future.

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