Katz and his father, Walter, spent weekend afternoons playing chess and evenings writing code for programmable calculators in the days before PCs forever changed computing.

Katz曾经和他的父亲Walter在周末的下午下棋，晚上为可编程计算器编写代码，那是一个PC还没出现并改变计算机史的时期。

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He wants to live forever, have the option to escape to outer space or an oceanic city-state, and play chess against a robot that can discuss Tolkien, because these were the fantasies that filled his childhood imagination.

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