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Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.
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Nicholas Negroponte
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 1
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I'm not against paying at all. What I'm against is the complexity of paying. And you very often go to a website and you try to click on something and sometimes it will even say it's free, but you have to fill out this form.
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